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ghsa-mcgj-mgj8-8cr3

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:53

Modified

2022-05-13 01:53

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

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  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:53:58Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:53:58Z",
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CVE-2018-9918 (GCVE-0-2018-9918)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-04-10 18:00

Modified

2024-08-05 07:24

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

References

URL

Tags

	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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