UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11624

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11624

    Published: 25 Jul 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-11624
    Aliases:
    USN-3638-1

    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 two consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11624, http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3638-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11624

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qpdf

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.0.2-3~14.04.1

    Affected versions

    4.2.0-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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