Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU39154

Infinite loop in podofo - CVE-2017-8053

Published: April 23, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU39154

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-2017-8053

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.

PoDoFo 0.9.5 allows denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF file in PoDoFo::PdfParser::ReadDocumentStructure (PdfParser.cpp).

Affected software

podofo
podofo (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2017-8053

Install update from vendor's website.

podofo (Alpine package) - update to 0.9.7-r0

External References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/22/1
http://www.evernote.com/l/AnGe5jS_MvNDaZvZW-fzvV37H4ggSf5IkQo/

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