Infinite loop in QPDF - CVE-2017-18186

Vulnerability identifier: #VU12627

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-18186

CWE-ID: CWE-835

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: SourceForge

Affected software:
QPDF

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in QPDF.cc due to looping xref tables. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.

Update to version 7.0.0.

• https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/149