CVE-2017-12595

The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption…

published August 27, 2017

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01804 · 78.2th percentile
Published
2017-08-27T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 AUG 15:00Z
    The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption…
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