Out-of-Bounds Affecting qpdf package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-QPDF-10078239
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed25 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11626  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for qpdf.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after four consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."

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