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CVE-2017-12595

CVE-2017-12595 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 1.80% · 76.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
1.80%
76.4th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSqpdf0, 4.2.0-2, 5.0.1-1ubuntu1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSqpdf0, 5.1.3-2, 5.1.3-3

Timeline

  • Aug 27, 2017 CVE Published
  • Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
  • Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
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