CVE-2018-9918

libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-04-10

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-674

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Qpdf (Qpdf Project)

References

• https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223
• https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/