Description
A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after two consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."
Published: 2017-07-25
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-3236 A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after two consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3638-1 QPDF vulnerabilities
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Qpdf Project Qpdf
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:12:40.949Z

Reserved: 2017-07-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-11624

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-25T23:29:00.327

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-11624

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-07-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-11624 - Bugzilla

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