Description
The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.
Published: 2017-08-27
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 2.1% Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-4166 The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3638-1 QPDF vulnerabilities
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Qpdf Project Qpdf
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:43:55.969Z

Reserved: 2017-08-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-12595

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-27T15:29:00.200

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-12595

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-12595 - Bugzilla

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