Infinite loop in podofo - CVE-2017-5852
Published: March 1, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39607
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-2017-5852
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 PoDoFo::PdfPage::GetInheritedKeyFromObject function in base/PdfVariant.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted file.
Affected software
podofo
Fedora
Opensuse
mingw-podofo
Fedora
Opensuse
mingw-podofo
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5852
Install update from vendor's website.
mingw-podofo - addressed in versions 0.9.5-6.fc27, 0.9.5-6.fc28