CVE-2018-8036

Summary

CVECVE-2018-8036
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-03 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:01:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0.0 rc1 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0.0 rc2 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0.0 rc3 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0.0 rc1 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0.0 rc2 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox 2.0.0 rc3 All All
Application Apache Pdfbox All All All All
Application Apache Pdfbox All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: pdfbox-2.0.16-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: pdfbox-2.0.16-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: pdfbox-2.0.16-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: pdfbox-2.0.16-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2020 N/A www.oracle.com
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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