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GHSA-6fj4-rcr3-r7rr: lopdf has a stack overflow via deeply nested PDF objects

October 16, 2026

lopdf::Document::load_mem (and the other load* entry points) parses nested PDF arrays and dictionaries with unbounded recursion. A small crafted PDF whose Catalog contains a deeply nested array (/X [[[ … ]]], on the order of 10,000 levels) exhausts the call stack and aborts the process with SIGABRT.

Because this is a stack-overflow abort rather than a panic!, it cannot be caught with catch_unwind: any service that parses untrusted PDF input with lopdf can be crashed by a ~21 KB file, resulting in a denial of service.

Confirmed on lopdf 0.41.0 and earlier; fixed in 0.42.0. Default configuration, no features changed.

References

  • github.com/J-F-Liu/lopdf/commit/c755394ad7dd651ccfe77c618f90ab779da1dfd9
  • github.com/J-F-Liu/lopdf/issues/502
  • github.com/J-F-Liu/lopdf/pull/503
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-6fj4-rcr3-r7rr
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0187.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.42.0

Fixed versions

  • 0.42.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.42.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-1124: Excessively Deep Nesting

Source file

cargo/lopdf/GHSA-6fj4-rcr3-r7rr.yml

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