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CVE-2017-11627

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 PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh, aka an "infinite loop."

Published

2017-07-25T23:29:00.467

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-835

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	qpdf_project	qpdf	6.0.0	Yes

References

http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_21.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/118 Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/ ([email protected])
http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_21.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/118 Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)