vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3638-1 (CVE-2017-11627): QPDF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 25, 2017
Added
May 15, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh, aka an "infinite loop."

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libqpdf21ubuntu-upgrade-qpdf
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