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CVE-2017-11624

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 two consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
fixed by one of the other infinite loop CVEs

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
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
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