CVE-2015-9252 An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.
MediumCVSS 5.5
EPSS 1.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- No public exploit known
Description
An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian/qpdf(Debian:12) | < 7.0.0-1 | 7.0.0-1 |
| debian/qpdf(Debian:13) | < 7.0.0-1 | 7.0.0-1 |
| debian/qpdf(Debian:14) | < 7.0.0-1 | 7.0.0-1 |
| qpdf project qpdf | < 7.0.0 | 7.0.0 |
References
- Debian Security Tracker CVE-2015-9252 vendor-advisory
- github.com patch third-party-advisory
- github.com issue-tracking third-party-advisory
- USN-3638-1 vendor-advisory