CVE-2015-9252

low-risk

Published 2018-02-13

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.

Do I need to act?

0.31% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 5.5/10 Medium

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Qpdf

Affected Vendors

Qpdf Project

References (6)

Patch https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e

Issue Tracking https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/51

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

Patch https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e

Issue Tracking https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/51

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

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low-risk

Severity 18/34 · Moderate

Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal