CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18186

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Feb 13, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW
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An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop due to looping xref tables in QPDF.cc.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
QpdfQpdf_project*7.0.0 (excluding)
QpdfUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
QpdfUbuntutrusty*
QpdfUbuntuupstream*
QpdfUbuntuxenial*

References