CVE-2017-12595

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-12595
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-08-27 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-05-08 13:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThe tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qpdf Project Qpdf 6.0.0 All All All
Application Qpdf Project Qpdf 7.0.b1 All All All
Application Qpdf Project Qpdf 6.0.0 All All All
Application Qpdf Project Qpdf 7.0.b1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3638-1: QPDF vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
Parse iteratively to avoid stack overflow (fixes #146) · qpdf/qpdf@ad527a6 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
QPDF v6.0 Stack Corruption · Issue #146 · qpdf/qpdf · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501231 Alpine Linux Security Update for qpdf
  • 670203 EulerOS Security Update for qpdf (EulerOS-SA-2021-1703)
  • 670232 EulerOS Security Update for qpdf (EulerOS-SA-2021-1843)
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