CVE-2015-9252

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.1%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 64% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-399
Published: 2018-02-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

qpdf_project:qpdf

References

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/51
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/701b518d5c56a1449825a3a37a716c58e05e1c3e
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/51

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