Description
The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-4166 | The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-3638-1 | QPDF vulnerabilities |
References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T18:43:55.969Z
Reserved: 2017-08-06T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-12595
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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-08-27T15:29:00.200
Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
Link: CVE-2017-12595
OpenCVE Enrichment
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EUVD
Ubuntu USN