CVE-2018-9918

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-9918
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-04-10 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
Descriptionlibqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-674

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10 All All All
Application Qpdf Project Qpdf All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-3638-1: QPDF vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Limit depth of nesting in direct objects (fixes #202) · qpdf/qpdf@b4d6cf6 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
Segmentation Fault (stack exhaustion) on a crafted PDF file · Issue #202 · qpdf/qpdf · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, 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

  • 296090 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 5.1.3 Missing (CPUJAN2019)
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