QID 671118

Date Published: 2021-11-29

QID 671118: EulerOS Security Update for qpdf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2655)

Qpdf is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on pdf files.
It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf.
It includes support for merging and splitting pdfs and to manipulate the list of pages in a pdf file.
It is not a pdf viewer or a program capable of converting pdf into other formats.
Security fix(es): 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.(cve-2015-9252) an issue was discovered in qpdf before 7.0.0.
There is an infinite loop due to looping xref tables in qpdf.cc.(cve-2017-18186)

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An arbitrary attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise the system.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.3 severity.
    • Solution
    The Vendor has released a security update to fix the vulnerability. For more information please visit EulerOS-SA-2019-2655 for updates and patch information
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 671118

    CVE-2015-9252 | CVE-2017-18186 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    EulerOS-SA-2019-2655 EulerOS V2.0SP3 URL Logo developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2655
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