Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-18183 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in Qpdf Project Qpdf
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop in the QPDFWriter::enqueueObject() function in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
| NASL family | Ubuntu Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | UBUNTU_USN-3638-1.NASL |
| description | It was discovered that QPDF incorrectly handled certain malformed files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause QPDF to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 109600 |
| published | 2018-05-08 |
| reporter | Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109600 |
| title | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 17.10 : qpdf vulnerabilities (USN-3638-1) |