Source: qpdf
Version: 6.0.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for qpdf.

CVE-2018-9918[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-9918
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9918
[1] https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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