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SUSE: CVE-2018-8036: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-8036: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/03/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/08/2018
Modified
12/20/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-apache-pdfbox
  • suse-upgrade-apache-pdfbox-javadoc

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:2630-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3318-1
  • CVE-2018-8036

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