Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpodofo  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-LIBPODOFO-651902
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed18 May 2018

Introduced: 18 May 2018

CVE-2018-11254  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.5. There is an Excessive Recursion in the PdfPagesTree::GetPageNode() function of PdfPagesTree.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service through a crafted pdf file, a related issue to CVE-2017-8054.