CVE-2018-9918

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.857

Associated Vulnerability

No records found

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234