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Message-ID: <2e123ab7-5492-d35a-1c85-7b13dbd438ec@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:51:28 +0200
From: Andreas Lehmkuehler <lehmi@...che.org>
To: announce@...che.org, security@...che.org,
oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: [CVE-2018-8036] DoS (OOM) Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser
[CVE-2018-8036] DoS (OOM) Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser
Severity: Important
Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14
Apache PDFBox 2.0.0 to 2.0.10
Earlier, unsupported Apache PDFBox versions may be affected as well
Description:
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to
an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.
Mitigation:
Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 1.8.15 respectively 2.0.11
Credit:
This issue was discovered by Tobias Ospelt
Website:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/
Download:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/2.0.11/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.15/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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