CVE-2017-11626

N/A
Published: July 25, 2017 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:02 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQpdf

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

Description

A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after four consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/119
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-835

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