Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-11797
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-9E91AFA2BE.NASL description Update to 2.0.16 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 128625 published 2019-09-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128625 title Fedora 30 : pdfbox (2019-9e91afa2be) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1547.NASL description It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability in libpdfbox-java, a PDF library for Java. A malicious PDF file could have triggered an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118157 published 2018-10-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118157 title Debian DLA-1547-1 : libpdfbox-java security update NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-1422.NASL description This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following security issue : - CVE-2018-11797: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree. (bsc#1111009) : This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-11-19 plugin id 119027 published 2018-11-19 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119027 title openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-1422) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-6FA01D12B4.NASL description Update to 2.0.16 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 128624 published 2019-09-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128624 title Fedora 29 : pdfbox (2019-6fa01d12b4) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-1245.NASL description This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following security issue : - CVE-2018-8036: A crafted file could have triggered an infinite loop which lead to DoS (bsc#1099721). - CVE-2018-11797: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree. (bsc#1111009) : This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-10-25 plugin id 118381 published 2018-10-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118381 title openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-1245) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-924.NASL description This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following security issue : - CVE-2018-11797: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree. (bsc#1111009) : This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123377 published 2019-03-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123377 title openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2019-924) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2019-88F53A7433.NASL description Update to 2.0.16 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 129630 published 2019-10-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129630 title Fedora 31 : pdfbox (2019-88f53a7433)
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00008.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b886d39c20b4065d51ccb1cd5d3a6b4750a22edbb565eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPOGHJ5CVMUVCRQU7APBAN5IVZGZFDX/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6HKVPTJWZGUB4MH4AAOWMRJHRDBYFHGJ/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369e14c185da9662a5340a52afbbdf75d61c9c3a69c8f2e8%40%3Cdev.pdfbox.apache.org%3E