CVE-2015-9252 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/51 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5