CVE-2017-11626

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    CVE-2017-11626

    Published: 25 Jul 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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."

    References: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/, http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_65.html, https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/119

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- b7302a9b727d28d59bff0f0f7d8d62ff6486aef6
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    6.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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