CVE-2018-8036

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache PDFbox
Vendor
CVE Published:
3 July 2018

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14

Apache PDFBox 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a...
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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