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CVE-2017-12595 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b CVEIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146 CVEIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/ CVE
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b [email protected]Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146 [email protected]Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-20Improper Input Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
qpdf project qpdf
6.0.0
7.0.b1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:7.0.b1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-12595
NVD Published Date:
Aug 27, 2017
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2017-12595 Details - Not Deferred