vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2016-2175: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 1, 2016
Added
Aug 2, 2017
Modified
Jan 26, 2018

Description

Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.

Solution

suse-upgrade-apache-pdfbox
Title
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