Overview
About vulnerability
Impact
An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires reading a file in non-strict mode.
Patches
This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.9.2](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.9.2).
Workarounds
If users cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#3693](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3693).
Details
- Affected product:
- pypdf
- Affected packages:
- pypdf @ 5.9.0