pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when retrieving outlines

ImpactAn attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes and large memory consumption. This requires accessing the outlines of a document with either lots of entries or nested outlines with long re-used nesting paths. PatchesThis has been fixed in pypdf==6.16.1...

Excessive Iteration

Overview pypdf is an A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF files Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Excessive Iteration in its document outline retrieval, which processes outline entries and nested outline paths without bounding t...

GHSA-23W6-3W8W-8484 pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when retrieving outlines

Impact An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes and large memory consumption. This requires accessing the outlines of a document with either lots of entries or nested outlines with long re-used nesting paths. Patches This has been fixed in pypdf==6.16.1...