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Fedora 26: 2017-e58a762c3f Moderate: QPDF Infinite Loop Exploits

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial patches released for qpdf in Fedora 26 tackling several endless loop vulnerabilities. Safeguard your device immediately.
Security fix for CVE-2017-11627, CVE-2017-11626, CVE-2017-11625, CVE-2017-11624, CVE-2017-9208, CVE-2017-9209, CVE-2017-9210.

Summary

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving

transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something

like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs

and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer

or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.

Security fix for CVE-2017-11627, CVE-2017-11626, CVE-2017-11625, CVE-2017-11624,

CVE-2017-9208, CVE-2017-9209, CVE-2017-9210.

[ 1 ] Bug #1475510 - CVE-2017-11625 qpdf: Infinite loop in QPDF::resolveObjectsInStream function in QPDF.cc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475510

[ 2 ] Bug #1475514 - CVE-2017-11626 qpdf: Infinite loop in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475514

[ 3 ] Bug #1475517 - CVE-2017-11627 qpdf: Infinite loop in PointerHolder function in PointerHolder.hh

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475517

[ 4 ] Bug #1475507 - CVE-2017-11624 qpdf: Infinite loop in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475507

[ 5 ] Bug #1454819 - CVE-2017-9210 qpdf: Infinite loop related to unparse functions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1454819

[ 6 ] Bug #1454816 - CVE-2017-9209 qpdf: Infinite loop related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1454816

[ 7 ] Bug #1454815 - CVE-2017-9208 qpdf: Infinite loop related to releaseResolved functions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1454815

su -c 'dnf upgrade qpdf' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 26
Version: 6.0.0
Release: 6.fc26
Summary: Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files

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