CVE-2017-12595

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    CVE-2017-12595

    Published: 27 Aug 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/, https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b, https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146

    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
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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