Bug 1454816 (CVE-2017-9209) - CVE-2017-9209 qpdf: Infinite loop related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal
Summary: CVE-2017-9209 qpdf: Infinite loop related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-9209
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1454820
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-05-23 13:58 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-23 14:09:27 UTC
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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]
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