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CVE-2017-12595

Published: Aug 27, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146

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vendor-advisory

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https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b

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