Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-9208 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
OS | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-3066-2.NASL description This update for qpdf fixes the following issues : qpdf was updated to 7.1.1. Security issues fixed : CVE-2017-11627: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050577). CVE-2017-11625: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050579). CVE-2017-11626: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050578). CVE-2017-11624: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050581). CVE-2017-12595: Stack overflow when processing deeply nested arrays and dictionaries (bsc#1055960). CVE-2017-9209: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040312). CVE-2017-9210: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040313). CVE-2017-9208: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040311). - Check release notes for detailed bug fixes. - http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.release-notes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 118301 published 2018-10-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118301 title SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qpdf (SUSE-SU-2018:3066-2) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from SUSE update advisory SUSE-SU-2018:3066-2. # The text itself is copyright (C) SUSE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(118301); script_version("1.3"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/10 13:51:49"); script_cve_id("CVE-2017-11624", "CVE-2017-11625", "CVE-2017-11626", "CVE-2017-11627", "CVE-2017-12595", "CVE-2017-9208", "CVE-2017-9209", "CVE-2017-9210"); script_name(english:"SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qpdf (SUSE-SU-2018:3066-2)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "This update for qpdf fixes the following issues : qpdf was updated to 7.1.1. Security issues fixed : CVE-2017-11627: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050577). CVE-2017-11625: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050579). CVE-2017-11626: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050578). CVE-2017-11624: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050581). CVE-2017-12595: Stack overflow when processing deeply nested arrays and dictionaries (bsc#1055960). CVE-2017-9209: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040312). CVE-2017-9210: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040313). CVE-2017-9208: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040311). - Check release notes for detailed bug fixes. - http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.release-notes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.release-notes" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040311" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040312" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040313" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050577" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050578" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050579" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050581" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055960" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11624/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11625/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11626/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11627/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12595/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9208/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9209/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9210/" ); # https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20183066-2/ script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?4cb84123" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product : SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-2169=1" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters-cups-browsed"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters-cups-browsed-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters-foomatic-rip"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters-foomatic-rip-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters-ghostscript"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cups-filters-ghostscript-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqpdf18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqpdf18-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf-debuginfo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:qpdf-debugsource"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/05/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/10/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/10/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^(SLE(S|D)\d+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "SUSE"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^(SLES12)$", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SUSE SLES12", "SUSE " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "x86_64" >!< cpu && "s390x" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "SUSE " + os_ver, cpu); if (cpu >!< "x86_64") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "x86_64", cpu); sp = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/patchlevel"); if (isnull(sp)) sp = "0"; if (os_ver == "SLES12" && (! preg(pattern:"^(2)$", string:sp))) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "SLES12 SP2", os_ver + " SP" + sp); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-cups-browsed-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-cups-browsed-debuginfo-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-debuginfo-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-debugsource-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-foomatic-rip-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-foomatic-rip-debuginfo-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-ghostscript-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"cups-filters-ghostscript-debuginfo-1.0.58-15.2.1")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libqpdf18-7.1.1-3.3.4")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libqpdf18-debuginfo-7.1.1-3.3.4")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"qpdf-7.1.1-3.3.4")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"qpdf-debuginfo-7.1.1-3.3.4")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"SLES12", sp:"2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"qpdf-debugsource-7.1.1-3.3.4")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "qpdf"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-191D7EC089.NASL description Adding patches for CVEs in qpdf does binary incompatibility, so cups-filters needed to be rebuilt. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-08-16 plugin id 102506 published 2017-08-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102506 title Fedora 26 : cups-filters / qpdf (2017-191d7ec089) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-A05E2B8545.NASL description Patches solving CVEs in qpdf changes API, so cups-filters needed to be rebuilt with it. ---- Reverting changes from previous update Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-08-21 plugin id 102607 published 2017-08-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102607 title Fedora 25 : cups-filters / qpdf (2017-a05e2b8545) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_SU-2018-3066-1.NASL description This update for qpdf fixes the following issues : qpdf was updated to 7.1.1. Security issues fixed : CVE-2017-11627: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050577). CVE-2017-11625: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050579). CVE-2017-11626: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050578). CVE-2017-11624: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050581). CVE-2017-12595: Stack overflow when processing deeply nested arrays and dictionaries (bsc#1055960). CVE-2017-9209: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040312). CVE-2017-9210: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040313). CVE-2017-9208: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040311). - Check release notes for detailed bug fixes. - http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.release-notes Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 117993 published 2018-10-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117993 title SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qpdf (SUSE-SU-2018:3066-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-176.NASL description This version update for qpdf to 7.1.1 fixes the following issues : - Update to version 7.1.1 - Fix one linearization bug affecting files whose first /ID component is not 16 bytes long - Update to version 7.1.0 - Allow raw encryption key to be specified in libary and command line with the QPDF::setPasswordIsHexKey method and --password-is-hex-key option. Allow encryption key to be displayed with --show-encryption-key option. See https://blog.didierstevens.com/2017/12/28/cracking-encry pted-pdfs-part-3/ for a discussion of using this for cracking encrypted PDFs. I hope that a future release of qpdf will include some additional recovery options that may also make use of this capability. - Fix lexical error: the PDF specification allows floating point numbers to end with last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-02-20 plugin id 106894 published 2018-02-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106894 title openSUSE Security Update : qpdf (openSUSE-2018-176) 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) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2017-E58A762C3F.NASL description Security fix for CVE-2017-11627, CVE-2017-11626, CVE-2017-11625, CVE-2017-11624, CVE-2017-9208, CVE-2017-9209, CVE-2017-9210. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-08-07 plugin id 102215 published 2017-08-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102215 title Fedora 26 : qpdf (2017-e58a762c3f)