Resource Exhaustion Affecting qpdf-libs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-QPDFLIBS-1327986
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Oct 2018

Introduced: 6 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18020  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In QPDF 8.2.1, in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc, QPDFWriter::unparseObject and QPDFWriter::unparseChild have recursive calls for a long time, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF file.