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GHSA-GX96-VGF7-HWFG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2018-10-17 18:22 – Updated: 2022-04-27 14:23

Summary

In Apache PDFBox a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation

Details

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "modified": "2022-04-27T14:23:39Z",
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CVE-2018-11797 (GCVE-0-2018-11797)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:33

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

DoS vulnerability

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

7 references

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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache PDFBox	Affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 Affected: 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11

Date Public

2018-10-05 00:00

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