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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

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
this patch breaks ABI

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
qpdf
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(7.0.0-1)
bionic Not vulnerable

trusty
Released (8.0.2-3~14.04.1)
upstream
Released (7.0.0-1)
xenial
Released (8.0.2-3~16.04.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e

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