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CVE-2018-9918
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-04-10T18:29:00.450 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:07:19.277

Summary

libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

Affected products

qpdf_project — qpdf

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References

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