Bug 1454816 (CVE-2017-9209)

Summary: CVE-2017-9209 qpdf: Infinite loop related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-23 13:58:27 UTC 
libqpdf.a in QPDF allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka qpdf-infiniteloop2.

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https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/21/qpdf-three-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf/
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-23 14:01:27 UTC 
Created qpdf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1454820]