Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting qpdf-doc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-QPDFDOC-1375566
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 May 2017

Introduced: 21 May 2017

CVE-2017-9210  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 qpdf-doc.

NVD Description

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

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to unparse functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop3.