CVE-2017-18183

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18183
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-18183.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-18183
Downstream
Published
2018-02-13T19:29:00.307Z
Modified
2025-11-14T05:08:20.487854Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is an infinite loop in the QPDFWriter::enqueueObject() function in libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/qpdf/qpdf

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
8249a26d69f72b9cda584c14cc3f12769985e481

Affected versions

release-qpdf-2.*

release-qpdf-2.0
release-qpdf-2.0.1
release-qpdf-2.0.2
release-qpdf-2.0.3
release-qpdf-2.0.4
release-qpdf-2.0.5
release-qpdf-2.0.6
release-qpdf-2.1
release-qpdf-2.1.1
release-qpdf-2.1.2
release-qpdf-2.1.3
release-qpdf-2.1.4
release-qpdf-2.1.5
release-qpdf-2.1.rc1
release-qpdf-2.2.0
release-qpdf-2.2.1
release-qpdf-2.2.2
release-qpdf-2.2.3
release-qpdf-2.2.4
release-qpdf-2.2.rc1
release-qpdf-2.3.0
release-qpdf-2.3.1

release-qpdf-3.*

release-qpdf-3.0.0
release-qpdf-3.0.1
release-qpdf-3.0.2
release-qpdf-3.0.rc1

release-qpdf-4.*

release-qpdf-4.0.0
release-qpdf-4.0.1
release-qpdf-4.1.0
release-qpdf-4.2.0

release-qpdf-5.*

release-qpdf-5.0.0
release-qpdf-5.0.1
release-qpdf-5.1.0
release-qpdf-5.1.1
release-qpdf-5.1.2
release-qpdf-5.1.3
release-qpdf-5.2.0

release-qpdf-6.*

release-qpdf-6.0.0

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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