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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2017-9209 json

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF d…

published 2017-05-23 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18147

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libqpdf.a in QPDF 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and stack consumption) via a crafted PDF document, related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal, aka qpdf-infiniteloop2.

Patch / fix

  • qpdf Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 7.0.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9209

  • qpdf Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 8.0.2-3~14.04.1
  • qpdf Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 8.0.2-3~16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9209

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • qpdf SLES 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP2-BCL, SLED 12 SP3 +9 more 7.1.1-3.3.4
  • cups-filters SLES 12 SP2-BCL, OpenStack Cloud 7, Enterprise Storage 4 +5 more 1.0.58-15.2.1
  • cups-filters SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 1.0.58-19.2.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3066-2SUSE-SU-2018:3066-1

  • qpdf openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.3.2-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11289-1

  • qpdf Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 7.0.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-9209

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-9209 updated cvss 3.3

qpdf: Infinite loop related to QPDFObjectHandle::parseInternal

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qpdf, qpdf-libs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.