CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-9209

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: May 23, 2017 | 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:H/I:N/A:N
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
NEGLIGIBLE

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.

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 6.0.0 (including) 6.0.0 (including)
Qpdf Ubuntu trusty *
Qpdf Ubuntu upstream *
Qpdf Ubuntu xenial *
Qpdf Ubuntu zesty *

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