vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3638-1 (CVE-2017-9208): QPDF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 23, 2017
Added
May 15, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libqpdf21ubuntu-upgrade-qpdf
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