CVE-2017-11624
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.08%
Description
A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after two consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."
How to fix CVE-2017-11624
To remediate CVE-2017-11624, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/qpdf—upgrade to 7.0.0-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 7.0.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2017-11624 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 7.0.0-r0
- from 0, < 7.0.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |