Infinite loop in podofo - CVE-2017-8054
Published: April 23, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39153
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-8054
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The function PdfPagesTree::GetPageNodeFromArray in PdfPageTree.cpp:464 in PoDoFo 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and application crash) via a crafted PDF document.
Affected software
podofo
Arch Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
podofo (Alpine package)
mingw-podofo
Arch Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
podofo (Alpine package)
mingw-podofo
How to mitigate CVE-2017-8054
Install update from vendor's website.
podofo (Alpine package) - update to 0.9.7-r0
mingw-podofo - addressed in versions 0.9.5-6.fc27, 0.9.5-6.fc28
mingw-podofo - addressed in versions 0.9.5-6.fc27, 0.9.5-6.fc28