CVE-2017-18184

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 a stack-based out-of-bounds read in the function iterate_rc4 in QPDF_encryption.cc.

Read the notes from the security team

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

Notes

leosilva

couldn't reproduce in trusty or xenial. Also code in these two releases are quite different from patch one.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

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

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

Other references