Vulnerability CVE-2017-11626
Published: 2017-07-25   Modified: 2017-07-26

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."

Type:

CWE-835

 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Qpdf project -> QPDF 

 References:
http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_65.html
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/119
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
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