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Posted to dev@pdfbox.apache.org by Andreas Lehmkuehler <le...@apache.org> on 2018/06/29 06:23:14 UTC
[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
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