CVE-2017-11627

MEDIUM

QPDF 6.0.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted File in PointerHolder

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/118
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0132
EPSS Percentile 67.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (1)
qpdf_project/qpdf 6.0.0
Published Jul 25, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026