Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2015-9252 (CCN-139829)

Assigned:2018-02-13
Published:2018-02-13
Updated:2018-05-08
Summary:An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in QPDFTokenizer.cc, related to the QPDF::resolve function in QPDF.cc.
CVSS v3 Severity:5.5 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
4.8 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): High
3.3 Low (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
2.9 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Low
CVSS v2 Severity:4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
1.7 Low (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
Vulnerability Type:CWE-399
Vulnerability Consequences:Denial of Service
References:Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2015-9252

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
qpdf-cve20159252-dos(139829)

Source: MISC
Type: Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e

Source: CCN
Type: qpdf GIT Repository
crash / stack overflow with malformed input pdf #51

Source: MISC
Type: Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/51

Source: UBUNTU
Type: UNKNOWN
USN-3638-1

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:qpdf_project:qpdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version < 7.0.0)

    • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    Oval Definitions
    Definition IDClassTitleLast Modified
    oval:com.ubuntu.artful:def:20159252000
    V
    		CVE-2015-9252 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) - low.
    2018-02-13
    oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201592520000000
    V
    		CVE-2015-9252 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.
    2018-02-13
    oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20159252000
    V
    		CVE-2015-9252 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low.
    2018-02-13
    oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201592520000000
    V
    		CVE-2015-9252 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
    2018-02-13
    oval:com.ubuntu.trusty:def:20159252000
    V
    		CVE-2015-9252 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) - low.
    2018-02-13
    oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20159252000
    V
    		CVE-2015-9252 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
    2018-02-13
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    qpdf_project qpdf *