libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-04-10T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T07:24:56.362Z

Reserved: 2018-04-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-9918

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-04-10T18:29:00.450

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2018-9918

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-9918 - Bugzilla