Resource Exhaustion Affecting qpdf-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-QPDFLIBS-1974518
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Aug 2017

Introduced: 22 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12595  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

NVD Description

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

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.