CVE-2018-9918

2018-04-1000:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

76.3%

JSON

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.

Bugs

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu17.10noarchqpdf< 8.0.2-3~17.10.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchqpdf< 8.0.2-3~14.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchqpdf< 8.0.2-3~16.04.1UNKNOWN