CVE-2017-12595 (GCVE-0-2017-12595)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-27 15:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:43
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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