vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-8036: libpdfbox-java, libpdfbox2-java -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 3, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-libpdfbox-javadebian-upgrade-libpdfbox2-java
Title
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