CVE-2017-11627 — Infinite Loop in Project Qpdf

CWE-835 — Infinite LoopCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption11 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 66.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Qpdf Project Qpdf
Timeline
PublishedJul 25
Latest updateMay 13

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 PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh, aka an "infinite loop."

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianqpdf_project/qpdf< 7.0.0-1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-hcvf-2x69-7cgc: A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-11627: A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6↗2017-07-25
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OSV
CVE-2017-11627: A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6↗2017-07-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
QPDF vulnerabilities↗2018-05-07
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Red Hat
qpdf: Infinite loop in PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh↗2017-07-25
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Debian
CVE-2017-11627: qpdf - A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allo...↗2017
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11627 qpdf: Infinite loop in PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh↗2017-07-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11627 qpdf: Infinite loop in PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh [fedora-all]↗2017-07-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11627 qpdf: Infinite loop in PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh [epel-6]↗2017-07-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9208 CVE-2017-9209 CVE-2017-9210 qpdf: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-05-23
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