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CVE-2018-8036GHSA-J2XQ-PFFF-MVGG

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

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Fix
Fixed in 1.8.15, 2.0.11
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox

    1.8.0 to 1.8.14, 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10

  • org.apache.pdfbox:pdfboxMaven

    From 1.8.0 · fixed in 1.8.15

  • org.apache.pdfbox:pdfboxMaven

    From 2.0.0RC1 · fixed in 2.0.11

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