CVE-2017-11627

medium

Description

A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh, aka an "infinite loop."

References

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

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/118

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-3239

http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/07/qpdfan-infinite-loop-in-libqpdf_21.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-07-25

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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