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