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CVE-2017-18183

Published: 13 February 2018

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop in the QPDFWriter::enqueueObject() function in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc.

Priority

Low

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

trusty
Released (8.0.2-3~14.04.1)
upstream
Released (7.0.0-1)
xenial
Released (8.0.2-3~16.04.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/8249a26d69f72b9cda584c14cc3f12769985e481

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