Infinite loop

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 Infinite loop in the insertchild method of TreeObject, whose loop can fail to reach its exit condition. An attacker can hang the...

CVE-2026-84309 pypdf: Possible infinite loop for TreeObject.insert_child

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.16.0, an attacker can craft a PDF whose cyclic tree structure causes pypdf/generic/datastructures.py TreeObject.insertchild to follow /Next links indefinitely when a writing code path inserts a child, producing an infinite loop...

EUVD-2026-69477

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.16.0, an attacker can craft a PDF whose cyclic tree structure causes pypdf/generic/datastructures.py TreeObject.insertchild to follow /Next links indefinitely when a writing code path inserts a child, producing an infinite loop...

CVE-2026-84309 pypdf: Possible infinite loop for TreeObject.insert_child

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.16.0, an attacker can craft a PDF whose cyclic tree structure causes pypdf/generic/datastructures.py TreeObject.insertchild to follow /Next links indefinitely when a writing code path inserts a child, producing an infinite loop...

CVE-2026-84309

pypdf versions prior to 6.16.0 are vulnerable to an infinite loop in TreeObject.insert_child (pypdf/generic/_data_structures.py). An attacker can craft a PDF with a cyclic tree structure that causes the method to follow /Next links indefinitely when a writing code path inserts a child, resulting ...