CVE-2017-11626
Published: 25 July 2017
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 QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after four consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."
Notes
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | fixed by one of the other infinite loop CVEs |
Priority
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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qpdf Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
artful |
Not vulnerable
(7.0.0-1)
|
bionic |
Not vulnerable
(7.0.0-1)
|
|
upstream |
Released
(7.0.0-1)
|
|
xenial |
Released
(8.0.2-3~16.04.1)
|
|
zesty |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
trusty |
Released
(8.0.2-3~14.04.1)
|
|
Patches: upstream: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ac3c81a8edcb44e2669485630d6718c96a6ad6e9 (test) |
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
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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 |