VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-11626
A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after four consecutive calls to…
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.21%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after four consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.21% probability · 67th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- Affected
- qpdf project/qpdf
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_65.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/119Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
- http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_65.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/119Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.