CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-3508

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Apr 28, 2021 | Modified: Dec 21, 2022

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/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-2021-3508
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html

A flaw was found in PDFResurrect in version 0.22b. There is an infinite loop in get_xref_linear_skipped() in pdf.c via a crafted PDF file.

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
Pdfresurrect	Pdfresurrect_project	0.22b (including)	0.22b (including)

References

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