Bug 1545268 (CVE-2015-9252) - CVE-2015-9252 qpdf: Infinite loop in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral in QPDFTokenizer.cc
Summary: CVE-2015-9252 qpdf: Infinite loop in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral in QPDFTok...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-9252
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1554713
Blocks: 1545293
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Reported: 2018-02-14 14:05 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:49 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: qpdf 7.1.1
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:39:58 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-14 14:05:34 UTC 
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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