Name: CVE-2017-18183: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-18183, CWE-835, CVSS 5.5, EPSS 0.00338

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop in the QPDFWriter::enqueueObject() function in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade qpdf	Jul 30, 2024	Feb 13, 2018
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Feb 13, 2018
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libqpdf21Upgrade qpdf	May 15, 2018	Feb 13, 2018

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CVSS Details

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