Denial of Service Vulnerability in QPDF through 8.0.2

CVE-2018-9918 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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