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CVE-2018-9918

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Description

libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published4/10/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxqpdf_project:qpdf

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-674

References

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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