CVE-2018-11797 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpdfbox2-java  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-LIBPDFBOX2JAVA-1032714
  • published5 Oct 2018
  • disclosed5 Oct 2018

Introduced: 5 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-11797  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

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.

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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