Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2018-9918 First vendor Publication 2018-04-10
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2019-10-03

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.8
Base Score 7.8 Environmental Score 7.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 7.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

libqpdf.a in QPDF through 8.0.2 mishandles certain "expected dictionary key but found non-name object" cases, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion), related to the QPDFObjectHandle and QPDF_Dictionary classes, because nesting in direct objects is not restricted.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9918

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-b4ef545db5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2018-f2e1c09437.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
MISC https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/b4d6cf6836ce025ba1811b7bbec52680c7204223
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/202
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/

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2019-10-03 09:21:31
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2018-05-24 00:19:27
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2018-05-08 17:19:11
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2018-04-16 13:20:37
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2018-04-11 00:19:06
  • First insertion