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CVE-2017-12595

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Published: Aug 27, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

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7.8
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 5.9
Source: NVD

Description

The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.

Affected (2)

Products: Qpdf Project: Qpdf
Qpdf Project
1 product
Qpdf
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Qpdf Project
Qpdf
Version 6.0.0
Qpdf
Version 7.0.b1

Related CWEs

CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

References (6)

Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: cve@mitre.org
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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