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Bug 1545268 - (CVE-2015-9252) CVE-2015-9252 qpdf: Infinite loop in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral in QPDFTokenizer.cc
CVE-2015-9252 qpdf: Infinite loop in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral in QPDFTok...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20150902,reported=2...
: Security
Depends On: 1554713
Blocks: 1545293
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Reported: 2018-02-14 09:05 EST by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2018-03-29 18:05 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

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Fixed In Version: qpdf 7.1.1
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An unbounded recursion flaw leading to stack exhaustion was found in the way QPDF parsed PDF files. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash QPDF by tricking it into processing crafted PDF files.
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-14 09:05:34 EST
An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.


External References:

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/51

Upstream Patch:

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e

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