Infinite loop in PDFBox - CVE-2018-8036

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Infinite loop in PDFBox - CVE-2018-8036

Published: July 3, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13547
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-8036
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
PDFBox

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to infinite loop when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can supple specially crafted (or fuzzed) file, trigger out of memory exception and cause the service to crash.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-8036

Update to version 1.8.15 or 2.0.10.

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