Bug 1475517 (CVE-2017-11627)

Summary:	CVE-2017-11627 qpdf: Infinite loop in PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jpopelka, twaugh, zdohnal
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Bug Depends On:	1475518, 1475519
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-07-26 20:03:20 UTC

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".
Upstream bug:

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/118

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/jberkenbilt/qpdf/commit/2f56805a397b4d264bcfdfc248765990084c2933
https://github.com/jberkenbilt/qpdf/commit/97c9344c4b878ddc4723486640688d2d3d38ad32
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ac3c81a8edcb44e2669485630d6718c96a6ad6e9

References:

http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com.br/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_21.html

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-07-26 20:03:47 UTC

Created qpdf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1475519]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1475518]

Comment 2 Zdenek Dohnal 2017-08-01 12:53:18 UTC

Upstream patches from comment#0 add tests for this issue.

Actual upstream patches:

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/afe0242b263a9e1a8d51dd81e42ab6de2e5127eb
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/315092dd98d5230ef0efa18b294d464d0e9f79d0
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/603f222365252f1a1e20303b3dbe52466be3053b