ALT-PU-2018-1941-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2018-04-10
Modified: 2024-11-21
Modified: 2024-11-21
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 denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.
Severity: HIGH (7.8)
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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