Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting qpdf package, versions <8.0.2-3~16.04.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.21% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-QPDF-319558
  • published25 Jul 2017
  • disclosed25 Jul 2017

Introduced: 25 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11624  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 qpdf to version 8.0.2-3~16.04.1 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:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 two consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."