GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvgg Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-13 Modified 2022-06-29 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2018-8036
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-835
Reviewed
2022-06-29

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox: >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.15 → fixed in 1.8.15 • Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox: >= 2.0.0RC1, < 2.0.11 → fixed in 2.0.11

Description

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2018-8036 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References