Resource Exhaustion Affecting qpdf-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-QPDFDEVEL-1953545
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Sept 2015

Introduced: 2 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-9252  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 qpdf-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qpdf-devel package and not the qpdf-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.