A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file

Summary

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions.

Timeline

1. Mar 19, 2021, 4:05 PM UTCCVE published
2. Feb 13, 2025, 4:27 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox

  through 2.0.22

• org.apache.pdfbox:pdfboxMaven

  From 2.0.0 · fixed in 2.0.23

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