High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 27, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-12595
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.
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Affected products
27cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:qpdf_project:qpdf:7.0.b1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 6.0.0, 7.0.b1
- osv-coords24 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/qpdf&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/cups-filters&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207
< 10.3.2-1.3+ 23 more
- (no CPE)range: < 10.3.2-1.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-15.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-19.2.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-15.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-15.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-15.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-19.2.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-15.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-15.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-15.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-19.2.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.58-15.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.3.4
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ad527a64f93dca12f6aabab2ca99ae5eb352ab4bnvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/146nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/nvd
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