PT-2017-4082 · Qpdf+3 · Qpdf+3

Published 2017-07-25 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-11626

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 QPDF version 6.0.0

Description A stack-consumption issue was found in libqpdf, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function, which can lead to a denial of service via a crafted file. This issue is associated with an "infinite loop" after four consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal. The exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For QPDF version 6.0.0, 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-2017-2228

BDU:2021-01439

CVE-2017-11626

MGASA-2017-0237

MGASA-2018-0145

SUSE-SU-2018:3066-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3066-2

USN-3638-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qpdf

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 58

• 🔥 https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/119 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_65.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-12595 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9208 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11625 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11626 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3066-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3638-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11626 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9209 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18184 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0145 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-9252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-9918 · Vendor Advisory