Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qpdf  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-QPDF-613152
  • published10 Apr 2018
  • disclosed10 Apr 2018

Introduced: 10 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-9918  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qpdf package and not the qpdf package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.