Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qpdf  (opens in a new tab)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-617877
  • published27 Aug 2017
  • disclosed27 Aug 2017

Introduced: 27 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12595  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (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.

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.