oss-security - CVE-2021-31811: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading a tiny file

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Message-ID: <8324dd87-9dce-280d-de27-4e3281419f93@lehmi.de>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:04:42 +0200
From: Andreas Lehmkuehler <andreas@...mi.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2021-31811: Apache PDFBox: A carefully crafted PDF file can
 trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading a tiny file

Description:

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading 
the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.23 and prior 2.0.x versions.

This issue is being tracked as PDFBOX-5177

Mitigation:

This issue was fixed in 2.0.24. All users are recommended to upgrade to Apache 
PDFBox 2.0.24

Credit:

Apache PDFBox would like to thank Chaoyuan Peng for reporting this issue

References:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re3bd16f0cc8f1fbda46b06a4b8241cd417f71402809baa81548fc20e%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E

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