CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-9918

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-04-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-04-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-674

Description

libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

Affected configurations

• qpdf project qpdf (<= 8.0.2) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 17.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References