CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9208
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.
Affected configurations
• qpdf project qpdf 6.0.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/21/qpdf-three-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/21/qpdf-three-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf/ Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/ Third Party Advisory