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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-27T15:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-12595

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2018-05-08T13:29:00.617

Link: CVE-2017-12595

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2017-12595 - Bugzilla