Name: CVE-2018-8036: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-07-03T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-8036, CWE-835, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.00547

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade libpdfbox2-javaUpgrade libpdfbox-java	Jul 30, 2024	Jul 3, 2018
Suse	—	Upgrade apache-pdfbox-javadocUpgrade apache-pdfbox	Sep 8, 2018	Jul 3, 2018
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libpdfbox-javaUpgrade libpdfbox2-java	Nov 19, 2024	Jul 3, 2018

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CVSS Details

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