CVE-2017-9208

MEDIUM

QPDF 6.0.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted PDF Document

Title source: llm

Description

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/21/qpdf-three-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0132

EPSS Percentile 67.2%

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 (4)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 17.10

qpdf_project/qpdf 6.0.0

Published May 23, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026