medium6.5
CVE-2018-8036
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in Apache PDFBox
Impact
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox | >= 1.8.0, <= 1.8.14 | 1.8.15 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Apache | Pdfbox | after 1.8.0 through 1.8.14 from 2.0.0 through 2.0.10 Version 2.0.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j2xq-pfff-mvgg
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8036
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6@%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540@%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/