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CVE-2017-11624

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

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."

Affected products

• Qpdf Project Qpdf: 6.0.0

References

• http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf.html
• https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/117
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
• http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf.html
• https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/117
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

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