CVE-2018-11797 Affecting libpdfbox2-java package, versions <2.0.13-2~18.04


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.51% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBPDFBOX2JAVA-344097
  • published5 Oct 2018
  • disclosed5 Oct 2018

Introduced: 5 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-11797  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 libpdfbox2-java to version 2.0.13-2~18.04 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 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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CVSS Base Scores

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