CVE-2023-36807 (GCVE-0-2023-36807)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-30 18:38
Modified
2024-11-06 19:51
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Summary
pypdf is a pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files. In version 2.10.5 an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This infinite loop blocks the current process and can utilize a single core of the CPU by 100%. It does not affect memory usage. That is, for example, the case if the user extracted metadata from such a malformed PDF. Versions prior to 2.10.5 throw an error, but do not hang forever. This issue was fixed with https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/1331 which has been included in release 2.10.6. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should modify `PyPDF2/generic/_data_structures.py::read_object` to an an error throwing case. See GHSA-hm9v-vj3r-r55m for details.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
py-pdf pypdf Version: 2.10.5
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