CVE-2015-9252
Published: 13 February 2018
An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | this patch breaks ABI |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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qpdf Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Released
(7.0.0-1)
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| xenial |
Released
(8.0.2-3~16.04.1)
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| artful |
Not vulnerable
(7.0.0-1)
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| bionic |
Not vulnerable
|
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| trusty |
Released
(8.0.2-3~14.04.1)
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Patches: upstream: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e |
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Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 5.5 |
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | None |
| User interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity impact | None |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |