PT-2017-16713 · Podofo+2 · Podofo+2

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-03-01 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2017-5852

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PoDoFo version 0.9.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an infinite loop, by providing a crafted file. This is due to a problem in the PoDoFo::PdfPage::GetInheritedKeyFromObject function located in base/PdfVariant.cpp.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.4, consider avoiding the use of the GetInheritedKeyFromObject function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted files to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

DoS

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1584

CVE-2017-5852

DLA-929-1

MGASA-2018-0026

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_0066-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1

SUSE-SU-2018_2481-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Podofo

Suse

References · 78

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5852 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5852 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0026.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5852 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5852 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5852 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5852 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5852 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0026 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5309 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1032018 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11255 · Note