cve-2018-11797
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-05 20:00
Modified
2024-09-16 16:33
Severity ?
Summary
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree.
References
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
security@apache.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@apache.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
security@apache.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
security@apache.orghttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Apache Software FoundationApache PDFBox
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