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CVE-2017-9209

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka qpdf-infiniteloop2.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
• Qpdf Project Qpdf: 6.0.0

References

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/21/qpdf-three-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/21/qpdf-three-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

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