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Ubuntu: USN-3638-1 (CVE-2017-18183): QPDF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3638-1 (CVE-2017-18183): QPDF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/15/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libqpdf21
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qpdf

References

  • USN-3638-1
  • CVE-2017-18183

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