CVE-2018-9918 (GCVE-0-2018-9918)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-04-10 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 07:24
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Summary
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.
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