CVE-2017-12595 | BDVDB-2026-89559 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-08-27Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.