PT-2017-18094 · Podofo+2 · Podofo+2

Published 2017-04-22 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2017-8054

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 0.9.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in infinite recursion and application crash, via a crafted PDF document. This is due to a problem in the PdfPagesTree::GetPageNodeFromArray function in PdfPageTree.cpp.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.5, consider avoiding the use of the PdfPagesTree::GetPageNodeFromArray function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted PDF documents to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2273

CVE-2017-8054

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_0066-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1849-1

SUSE-SU-2019_1849-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Podofo

Suse

References · 77

• 🔥 http://qwertwwwe.github.io/2017/04/22/PoDoFo-0-9-5-allows-remote-attackers-to-cause-a-denial-of-service-infinit-loop · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8054 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8054 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:1849-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8054 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8054 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8054 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8054 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8054 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5309 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1032018 · Note