Improper Input Validation Affecting qpdf package, versions <8.0.2-3~14.04.1
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.
Test your applicationsSnyk Learn
Learn about Improper Input Validation vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.
Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-QPDF-319531
- published27 Aug 2017
- disclosed27 Aug 2017
Introduced: 27 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-12595 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 qpdf to version 8.0.2-3~14.04.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qpdf package and not the qpdf package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-12595
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12595
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12595
- https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b
- https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/