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CVE-2017-9208

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion...

5.5 MediumFix available

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.35%Up 0.4 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.5

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Record
CVE-2017-9208
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-835
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Record
CVE-2017-9208
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-18146 No score

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Record
EUVD-2017-18146
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-j36c-72rw-944m 5.5

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion...

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Record
GHSA-j36c-72rw-944m
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-835
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2017-9208 5.5

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2017-9208
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 5.5

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Record
CVE-2017-9208
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-9208 5.5

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9208
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-9208 5.5

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to releaseResolved functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop1.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9208
CVSS 3.0
5.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0237 No score

Updated qpdf packages fix security vulnerabilities

This snapshot of the upstream development branch (6.0) of qpdf fixes several infinite loop vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-9208, CVE-2017-9209, CVE-2017-9210, CVE-2017-11624, CVE-2017-11625, CVE-2017-11626, CVE-2017-11627.

For Mageia 5, the cups-filters package was also rebuilt against this new major version of qpdf.

Record
MGASA-2017-0237
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2018-0145 No score

Updated qpdf packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated qpdf packages fix security vulnerabilities:

  1. Stack overflow due to endless recursion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral()
  2. Another stack overflow / endless recursion in QPDFWriter::enqueueObject()
  3. Stack out of bounds read in iterate_rc4()
  4. heap out of bounds read (large) in Pl_Buffer::write
  5. Hang due to a pdf xref loop:

Also, the libjpeg package has been patched to provide pkgconfig files, so that cups-filters could be rebuilt against this qpdf update.

Record
MGASA-2018-0145
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:3066-1 No score

Security update for qpdf

This update for qpdf fixes the following issues:

qpdf was updated to 7.1.1.

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2017-11627: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050577).

  • CVE-2017-11625: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050579).

  • CVE-2017-11626: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050578).

  • CVE-2017-11624: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050581).

  • CVE-2017-12595: Stack overflow when processing deeply nested arrays and dictionaries (bsc#1055960).

  • CVE-2017-9209: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040312).

  • CVE-2017-9210: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040313).

  • CVE-2017-9208: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040311).

Record
SUSE-SU-2018:3066-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:3066-2 No score

Security update for qpdf

This update for qpdf fixes the following issues:

qpdf was updated to 7.1.1.

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2017-11627: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050577).

  • CVE-2017-11625: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050579).

  • CVE-2017-11626: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050578).

  • CVE-2017-11624: A stack-consumption vulnerability which allows attackers to cause DoS (bsc#1050581).

  • CVE-2017-12595: Stack overflow when processing deeply nested arrays and dictionaries (bsc#1055960).

  • CVE-2017-9209: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040312).

  • CVE-2017-9210: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040313).

  • CVE-2017-9208: Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1040311).

Record
SUSE-SU-2018:3066-2
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3638-1 No score

qpdf vulnerabilities

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.

Record
USN-3638-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
qpdf
Alpine:v3.8
 before 7.0.0-r0
7.0.0-r0
qpdf
Alpine:v3.9
 before 7.0.0-r0
7.0.0-r0
qpdf
Debian:12
 before 7.0.0-1
7.0.0-1
qpdf
Debian:13
 before 7.0.0-1
7.0.0-1
qpdf
Debian:14
 before 7.0.0-1
7.0.0-1
cups-filters
Mageia:5
 before 1.0.71-1.3.mga5
1.0.71-1.3.mga5
qpdf
Mageia:5
 before 6.0.0-2.20170730.1.mga5
6.0.0-2.20170730.1.mga5
qpdf
Mageia:6
 before 6.0.0-2.20170730.1.mga6
6.0.0-2.20170730.1.mga6
qpdf
Mageia:5
 before 7.1.1-1.mga5
7.1.1-1.mga5
libjpeg
Mageia:5
 before 1.3.1-4.3.mga5
1.3.1-4.3.mga5
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
cups-filters
Mageia:5
 before 1.0.71-1.4.mga5
1.0.71-1.4.mga5
cups-filters
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
 before 1.0.58-15.2.1
1.0.58-15.2.1
qpdf
SUSE:OpenStack Cloud 7
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
 before 1.0.58-19.2.3
1.0.58-19.2.3
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
 before 1.0.58-15.2.1
1.0.58-15.2.1
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
 before 1.0.58-15.2.1
1.0.58-15.2.1
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
 before 1.0.58-15.2.1
1.0.58-15.2.1
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
 before 1.0.58-15.2.1
1.0.58-15.2.1
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS
 before 1.0.58-15.2.1
1.0.58-15.2.1
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
 before 1.0.58-19.2.3
1.0.58-19.2.3
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
 before 1.0.58-19.2.3
1.0.58-19.2.3
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4
 before 1.0.58-15.2.1
1.0.58-15.2.1
qpdf
SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
cups-filters
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL
 before 1.0.58-15.2.1
1.0.58-15.2.1
qpdf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL
 before 7.1.1-3.3.4
7.1.1-3.3.4
qpdf
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
 before 8.0.2-3~14.04.1, plus listed versions
4.2.0-25.0.1-15.0.1-1ubuntu15.1.0-15.1.1-1
8.0.2-3~14.04.1
qpdf
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
 before 8.0.2-3~16.04.1, plus listed versions
5.1.3-25.1.3-35.2.0-15.2.0-26.0.0-2
8.0.2-3~16.04.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-9208 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Qpdf Project Qpdf, published May 23, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.35%, the 71st percentile. Fixed in qpdf 7.0.0-r0.

References

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