Stack-Consumption Vulnerability in libqpdf Allows for Denial of Service

CVE-2017-11624 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after two consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."

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