| Name | CVE-2017-12595 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| qpdf (PTS) | buster | 8.4.0-2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 8.4.0-2+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 10.1.0-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 11.3.0-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 11.9.0-1 | fixed |
| sid | 11.9.0-1.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| qpdf | source | (unstable) | 7.0.0-1 | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - qpdf <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - qpdf <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - qpdf <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146
Fixed by: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4b