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    <id>https://db.gcve.eu/vuln/rustsec-2026-0187</id>
    <title>RUSTSEC-2026-0187 — Stack overflow in lopdf via deeply nested PDF objects</title>
    <updated>2026-10-18T22:40:41.122492+00:00</updated>
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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><strong>Affected:</strong> crates.io: lopdf</p>
<p>`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`.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Confirmed on lopdf 0.41.0 and earlier; fixed in 0.42.0. Default configuration, no features changed.</p>
<p>## Proof of concept</p>
<p>```rust
fn main() {
    let bytes = std::fs::read("poc.pdf").unwrap(); // ~10,380-deep nested array in the Catalog
    let _ = lopdf::Document::load_mem(&amp;bytes);     // stack overflow -&gt; SIGABRT
}
```</p>
<p>An equivalent PoC is a minimal PDF whose Catalog `/X` value is `"[" * 10380 + "]" * 10380`.</p>
<p>## Suggested fix</p>
<p>Enforce a maximum object-nesting depth in the parser and return an `Err` instead of recursing without bound.</p></div>
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