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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2015-9252)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

According to the versions of the qpdf package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - 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.(CVE-2015-9252)

  - An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is     an infinite loop due to looping xref tables in     QPDF.cc.(CVE-2017-18186)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the qpdf package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2015-9252)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3638-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that QPDF incorrectly handled certain malformed files. A remote attacker could use this     issue to cause QPDF to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
219413	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-9252	Nessus	Misc.	medium
132190	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : qpdf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2655)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
131618	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : qpdf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2465)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
130647	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : qpdf (EulerOS-SA-2019-2185)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
109600	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QPDF vulnerabilities (USN-3638-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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