CVE-2017-18183

Publication date 13 February 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop in the QPDFWriter::enqueueObject() function in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qpdf 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 8.0.2-3~16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 8.0.2-3~14.04.1

Patch details

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Package Patch details
qpdf

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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