Out-of-Bounds Affecting qpdf/qpdf package, versions [,7.0-b1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.21% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QPDFQPDF-2369477
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11625  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qpdf/qpdf to version 7.0-b1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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 QPDF::resolveObjectsInStream function in QPDF.cc, aka an "infinite loop."

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