Description
Qiskit could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to a stack overflow during deserialization of QPY payloads. A malicious QPY payload can trigger a segmentation fault, causing the application to crash when deserializing untrusted input.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | Qiskit SDK | 2.1.0 – ≤ 2.5.1 | — |
References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7285932 vendor-advisory patch