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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https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223 | Patch |
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-04-10T18:00:00
Updated: 2018-05-08T09:57:01
Reserved: 2018-04-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-9918
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-04-10T18:29:00.450
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2018-9918
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE