GHSA-jr96-gvgh-j3r4
pypdf: Possible long runtimes for repeated malformed cross-reference entries (Follow-up)
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to long runtimes. This requires cross-reference streams with repeated malformed cross-reference streams.
### Patches
This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.21.2](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.21.2).
### Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#4240](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4240).
### Notes
This is a follow-up to https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-55h5-xmcq-c37v, which had the side-effect of still loading the whole stream again despite the cache being present.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.