Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting tika package, versions <1.18-1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (20th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-TIKA-327236
- published 25 Apr 2018
- disclosed 25 Apr 2018
Introduced: 25 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-1338 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10 tika to version 1.18-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tika package and not the tika package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1338
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E