Resource Exhaustion Affecting qpdf-doc package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.5% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-QPDFDOC-1381055
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 10 Apr 2018
Introduced: 10 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-9918 Open this link in a new tabHow 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 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.