Infinite loop in PDFBox - CVE-2018-11797

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Infinite loop in PDFBox - CVE-2018-11797

Published: October 8, 2018 / Updated: October 9, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15176
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11797
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a target system.

The vulnerability exists in the Apache PDFBox parser due to improper processing of PDF files when parsing the page tree. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a PDF file that submits malicious input to the targeted system, trigger an infinite loop condition, which could lead to an out-of-memory exception and result in a DoS condition.


Affected software

PDFBox
IBM Intelligent Operations Center
Opensuse
Fedora
Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service
pdfbox

How to mitigate CVE-2018-11797

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 1.8.16 and 2.0.12.

PDFBox - addressed in versions 1.8.16, 2.0.12
IBM Intelligent Operations Center - update to 5.2.4
pdfbox - addressed in versions 2.0.16-1.fc29, 2.0.16-1.fc30, 2.0.16-1.fc31

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