Apache PDFBox 1.8.14 / 2.0.10 Denial Of Service

2018.07.04
Credit: Tobias Ospelt
Risk: Medium
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: CVE-2018-8036
CWE: CWE-835


CVSS Base Score: 4.3/10
Impact Subscore: 2.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: Partial

[CVE-2018-8036] DoS (OOM) Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser Severity: Important 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 Website: https://pdfbox.apache.org/ Download: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/2.0.11/RELEASE-NOTES.txt https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.15/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

References:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/2.0.11/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.15/RELEASE-NOTES.txt


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