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Posted to dev@tika.apache.org by Tim Allison <ta...@apache.org> on 2018/04/25 17:04:59 UTC

[CVE-2018-1339] DoS (Infinite Loop) Vulnerability in Apache Tika’s ChmParser

CVE-2018-1339 – DoS (Infinite Loop) Vulnerability in Apache Tika’s ChmParser


Severity: Important


Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation


Versions Affected: <1.18


Description: A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite
loop in Apache Tika's ChmParser.

Mitigation: Turn off the ChmParser or upgrade to Apache Tika >=1.18.


Credit: Tobias Ospelt of modzero AG discovered this issue by fuzzing with
Kelinci (https://github.com/isstac/kelinci).