Excessive Iteration Affecting libpdfbox2-java package, versions <2.0.23-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBPDFBOX2JAVA-1087803
  • published 20 Mar 2021
  • disclosed 19 Mar 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libpdfbox2-java to version 2.0.23-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpdfbox2-java package and not the libpdfbox2-java package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High