PT-2017-4082
CVE-2017-11626
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Published
2017-07-25
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Updated
2019-10-03
Description by
CVSS 3.1
5.5
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
QPDF version 6.0.0
Description
A stack-consumption issue was found in libqpdf, related to the
QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function, which can lead to a denial of service via a crafted file. This issue is associated with an "infinite loop" after four consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal. The exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.Recommendations
For QPDF version 6.0.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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