Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-8036 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in Apache Pdfbox

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
apache
CWE-835
nessus
NVD
Published: 2018-07-03
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

In 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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Apache
28

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2019-9E91AFA2BE.NASL
    descriptionUpdate 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id128625
    published2019-09-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128625
    titleFedora 30 : pdfbox (2019-9e91afa2be)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2019-670.NASL
    descriptionThis update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2018-8036: Fix infinite loop while parsing files that leads to an out of memory issue (bsc#1099721). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id123290
    published2019-03-27
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123290
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2019-670)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2018-975.NASL
    descriptionThis update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2018-8036: Fix infinite loop while parsing files that leads to an out of memory issue (bsc#1099721). This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-09-07
    plugin id117353
    published2018-09-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/117353
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-975)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2019-6FA01D12B4.NASL
    descriptionUpdate 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id128624
    published2019-09-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128624
    titleFedora 29 : pdfbox (2019-6fa01d12b4)
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2018-1245.NASL
    descriptionThis 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 seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-10-25
    plugin id118381
    published2018-10-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118381
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-1245)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2019-88F53A7433.NASL
    descriptionUpdate 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 seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id129630
    published2019-10-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129630
    titleFedora 31 : pdfbox (2019-88f53a7433)

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2018:2669

References