CVE-2018-8036

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - security@apache.org

Published

2018-07-03

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Affected products

• Pdfbox (Apache)
• Apache Pdfbox (Apache Software Foundation)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.apache.…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMR…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBA…
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html