CVE-2015-9252: Qpdf Project Qpdf

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Qpdf Project Qpdf: before 7.0.0 (fixed in 7.0.0)

Published 2018-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.