CVE-2018-11797 Affecting libpdfbox-java package, versions <1:1.8.16-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBPDFBOXJAVA-520949
  • published5 Oct 2018
  • disclosed5 Oct 2018

Introduced: 5 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-11797  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libpdfbox-java to version 1:1.8.16-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree.

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