CVE-2017-9210
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
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 unparse functions, aka qpdf-infiniteloop3.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 17.10 | Affected | — |
| 16.04 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 7.0.0-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 7.0.0-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 7.0.0-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 7.0.0-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 7.0.0-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| qpdf_project | qpdf | 6.0.0 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-835
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.