Bug#902776: libpdfbox-java: CVE-2018-8036

[Markus Koschany]

Package: libpdfbox-java
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libpdfbox-java.

CVE-2018-8036[0]:
Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14
Apache PDFBox 2.0.0 to 2.0.10
Earlier, unsupported Apache PDFBox versions may be affected as well

Description:
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which
leads to
an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.

Mitigation:
Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 1.8.15 respectively 2.0.11

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Tobias Ospelt


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8036
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8036

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Markus

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