CVE catalog
CVE-2017-11626
qpdf: CVE-2017-11626
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 1.21% · Oct 25, 2026
A stack-consumption vulnerability was found in libqpdf in QPDF 6.0.0, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, related to the QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral function in QPDFTokenizer.cc after four consecutive calls to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka an "infinite loop."
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | qpdf | sid | 12.4.2-1 | fixed |
| Debian | qpdf | forky | 12.4.2-1 | fixed |
| Debian | qpdf | trixie | 12.2.0-1 | fixed |
| Debian | qpdf | bookworm | 11.3.0-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| Alpine | qpdf | 3.8 | 7.0.0-r0 | fixed |
| Alpine | qpdf | 3.9 | 7.0.0-r0 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 14.04 | 4.2.0-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 14.04 | 5.0.1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 14.04 | 5.0.1-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 14.04 | 5.1.0-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 14.04 | 5.1.1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 14.04 | 8.0.2-3~14.04.1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 16.04 | 5.1.3-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 16.04 | 5.1.3-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 16.04 | 5.2.0-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 16.04 | 5.2.0-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 16.04 | 6.0.0-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | 16.04 | 8.0.2-3~16.04.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | qpdf | source | sid | 7.0.0-1 | low | Not reported | [871320] |
| Debian | qpdf | source | forky | 7.0.0-1 | low | Not reported | [871320] |
| Debian | qpdf | source | trixie | 7.0.0-1 | low | Not reported | [871320] |
| Debian | qpdf | source | bookworm | 7.0.0-1 | low | Not reported | [871320] |
| Alpine | qpdf | apk | 3.8 | 7.0.0-r0 | Not reported | ALPINE-CVE-2017-11626 | Not reported |
| Alpine | qpdf | apk | 3.9 | 7.0.0-r0 | Not reported | ALPINE-CVE-2017-11626 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | deb | 14.04 | 8.0.2-3~14.04.1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11626 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | qpdf | deb | 16.04 | 8.0.2-3~16.04.1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11626 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [libqpdf29]Fixed
Source package: [qpdf]
Details (2)
11.3.0-1+deb12u1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · bookworm; dsa · qpdf · debian · 12
11.3.0-1+deb12u1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · bookworm; dsa · qpdf · debian · 12
- [libqpdf-dev]Fixed
Source package: [qpdf]
Details (2)
11.3.0-1+deb12u1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · bookworm; dsa · qpdf · debian · 12
11.3.0-1+deb12u1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · bookworm; dsa · qpdf · debian · 12
- [qpdf]Fixed
Details (2)
11.3.0-1+deb12u1· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · bookworm; dsa · qpdf · debian · 12
11.3.0-1+deb12u1· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · bookworm; dsa · qpdf · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [libqpdf30]Fixed
Source package: [qpdf]
Details (2)
12.2.0-1· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · 13
12.2.0-1· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · 13
- [libqpdf-dev]Fixed
Source package: [qpdf]
Details (2)
12.2.0-1· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · 13
12.2.0-1· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · 13
- [qpdf]Fixed
Details (2)
12.2.0-1· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · 13
12.2.0-1· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · 13
- [qpdf-doc]Fixed
Source package: [qpdf]
Details (2)
12.2.0-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · 13
12.2.0-1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
7.0.0-1dsa · qpdf · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/suse-su-2018_3066-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-11626]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11626]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11626]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11626]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2017/cve-2017-11626.json]
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