CVE-2017-9209

MEDIUM

QPDF 6.0.0 - DoS

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 QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka qpdf-infiniteloop2.

References (2)

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/21/qpdf-three-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf/

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0023

EPSS Percentile 45.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-835

Status published

Products (5)

qpdf_project/qpdf

canonical/ubuntu_linux

n/a/n/a

Published May 23, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026