CVE-2018-9918 | BDVDB-2026-99089 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12018-04-10Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.