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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2018.3026.2
DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser
8 October 2018
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Apache PDFBox
Publisher: The Apache Software Foundation
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2018-11797
Original Bulletin:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/44874f28986be322c354a10c4e46255808bf228a6201766552a63881@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
Revision History: October 8 2018: Updated to the "Credits" line.
October 8 2018: Initial Release
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[CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser
Severity: Important
Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected:
Apache PDFBox <= 1.8.15
Apache PDFBox <= 2.0.11
Earlier, unsupported Apache PDFBox versions may be affected as well
Description:
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long
running computation when parsing the page tree.
Mitigation:
Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 1.8.16 respectively 2.0.12
Credit:
This issue was discovered by Shawn Rasheed and Jens Dietrich
Website:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/
Download:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/2.0.12/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.16/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
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