CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18183

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Feb 13, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

4.3 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18183
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop in the QPDFWriter::enqueueObject() function in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Qpdf	Qpdf_project	*	7.0.0 (excluding)

References

Aqua Container Security

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