PT-2018-19086 · Qpdf+3 · Qpdf+3

Pushdword · Published 2018-04-10 · Updated 2024-06-24 · CVE-2018-9918

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QPDF versions prior to 8.0.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion) due to the mishandling of certain dictionary key cases. This is related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF Dictionary classes, where nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.0.3, update to version 8.0.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Uncontrolled Recursion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-674

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1941

CVE-2018-9918

MGASA-2018-0232

SUSE-SU-2024:2173-1

SUSE-SU-2024_2173-1

USN-3638-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qpdf

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 33

• 🔥 https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202 · Exploit
• https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0232 · 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://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/I4ZEBKAKN5LJYYF7ZALERVHHMBSTN2ET · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9210 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-9918 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-9918 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3638-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0232.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9918 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2024:2173-1 · Vendor Advisory