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Uncontrolled Recursion

CVE-2021-30470

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

A flaw was found in PoDoFo through version 0.9.7. An uncontrolled recursive call among "PdfTokenizer::ReadArray()", "PdfTokenizer::GetNextVariant()" and "PdfTokenizer::ReadDataType()" functions can lead to a stack overflow.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published