ghsa-j2xq-pfff-mvgg
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:53
Modified
2022-06-29 18:54
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox
Details

In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.

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{
   affected: [
      {
         database_specific: {
            last_known_affected_version_range: "<= 1.8.14",
         },
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "1.8.0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "1.8.15",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
      {
         database_specific: {
            last_known_affected_version_range: "<= 2.0.10",
         },
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "2.0.0RC1",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "2.0.11",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2018-8036",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-835",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2022-06-29T18:54:14Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2018-07-03T20:29:00Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.",
   id: "GHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvgg",
   modified: "2022-06-29T18:54:14Z",
   published: "2022-05-13T01:53:29Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8036",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540@%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
   summary: "Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox",
}


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