infinite loop due to recursive xref tables

Bug #825554 reported by levu
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Bug Description

As Andreas Bogk presented at Chaos Communication Camp, evince w/ poppler hangs in a infinite loop when xref tables point to each other recursively.

See https://github.com/andreas23/pdfparser/commit/b0b781ad9c5b61f4a9abe6ac283ba6185b971094#tests/loop.txt (pdf also attached)

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affects: poppler (Ubuntu) → evince (Ubuntu)
affects: evince (Ubuntu) → poppler (Ubuntu)
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