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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-9918

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 den...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 qpdf

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.0.2-3"}]}]

Debian:13 qpdf

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.0.2-3"}]}]

Debian:14 qpdf

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.0.2-3"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org