SB2015090202 - Denial of service in QPDF
Published: September 2, 2015
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015090202
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-9252)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc due to endless recursion. A remote attacker can trigger stack exhaustion and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.