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GHSA-52x6-gq3r-vpf4

pypdf: Possible infinite loop when retrieving fonts for layout-mode text extraction

Details

### Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires extracting the text in layout mode.

### Patches

This has been fixed in [pypdf==6.13.0](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.13.0).

### Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR [#3830](https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/3830).

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Affected packages

PyPI / pypdf
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 6.13.0
Fix pip install --upgrade 'pypdf>=6.13.0'

References