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CVE-2017-12595
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-27T15:29:00.200 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:03:35.330

Summary

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.

Affected products

qpdf_project — qpdf

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References

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