CVE-2025-55197

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.0.0, an attacker can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires just reading the file if a series of FlateDecode filters is used on a malicious cross-reference stream. Other content streams are...

CVE-2025-55197 pypdf's Manipulated FlateDecode streams can exhaust RAM

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.0.0, an attacker can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires just reading the file if a series of FlateDecode filters is used on a malicious cross-reference stream. Other content streams are...

CVE-2025-55197

The CVE-2025-55197 issue affects pypdf prior to version 6.0.0, where a crafted PDF using a sequence of FlateDecode filters in a malicious cross-reference stream can exhaust RAM (DoS). Other content streams may be affected on explicit access. The vulnerability has been fixed in 6.0.0. A workaround...

Fedora 21 : libhtp-0.5.16-1.fc21 (2014-16880)

0.5.16 11 December 2014 - Per personality requestline leading whitespace handling Victor Julien - Improve request line parsing with leading spaces Victor Julien - Harden decompress code against memory stress Victor Julien Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description...