GHSA-m2v9-299j-rv96

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pypdf: Possible infinite loop when processing outlines/bookmarks in writer

view advisory published 2026-06-16Licence: CC-BY-4.0

### Impact An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires merging a file with outlines into a writer. ### 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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