Resource Management Errors Affecting qpdf/qpdf package, versions [,6.0.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QPDFQPDF-2369471
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2017

CVE-2017-9209  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for qpdf/qpdf.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka qpdf-infiniteloop2.

CVSS Base Scores

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