Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0232 (qpdf)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0232: Updated qpdf packages fix security vulnerability 
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Sat, 12 May 2018 09:58:42 +0200
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MGASA-2018-0232 - Updated qpdf packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0232.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5, 6
CVE: CVE-2018-9918

Description:
A flaw was found in QPDF through 8.0.2. libqpdf.a 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
(CVE-2018-9918).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22961
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-9918

SRPMS:
- 5/core/qpdf-7.1.1-1.1.mga5
- 6/core/qpdf-7.1.1-1.1.mga6