Resource Exhaustion Affecting qpdf-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-QPDFLIBS-1994330
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Apr 2018

Introduced: 10 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-9918  (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.

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.