UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12595

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-12595
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12595.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12595
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Published
2017-08-27T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-07-18T16:44:06Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

The tokenizer in QPDF 6.0.0 and 7.0.b1 is recursive for arrays and dictionaries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a PDF document with a deep data structure, as demonstrated by a crash in QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal in libqpdf/QPDFObjectHandle.cc.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / qpdf

Package

Name
qpdf
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/qpdf@8.0.2-3~14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.0.2-3~14.04.1

Affected versions

4.*

4.2.0-2

5.*

5.0.1-1
5.0.1-1ubuntu1
5.1.0-1
5.1.1-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libqpdf-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libqpdf21"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libqpdf21-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "qpdf"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~14.04.1",
            "binary_name": "qpdf-dbgsym"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / qpdf

Package

Name
qpdf
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/qpdf@8.0.2-3~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
8.0.2-3~16.04.1

Affected versions

5.*

5.1.3-2
5.1.3-3
5.2.0-1
5.2.0-2

6.*

6.0.0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libqpdf-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libqpdf21"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "libqpdf21-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "qpdf"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "8.0.2-3~16.04.1",
            "binary_name": "qpdf-dbgsym"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}