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 |
|---|---|
| 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)
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| bionic |
Not vulnerable
(7.0.0-1)
|
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| upstream |
Released
(7.0.0-1)
|
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| xenial |
Released
(8.0.2-3~16.04.1)
|
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| zesty |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
| trusty |
Released
(8.0.2-3~14.04.1)
|
|
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Patches: upstream: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ac3c81a8edcb44e2669485630d6718c96a6ad6e9 (test) |
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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 |