CVE - CVE-2018-9918

CVE-ID
CVE-2018-9918	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223 MISC:https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202 UBUNTU:USN-3638-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Entry Created
20180410	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20180410)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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