Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-8036 - Infinite Loop vulnerability in Apache Pdfbox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 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
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
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 SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2019-670.NASL description This 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 seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123290 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/123290 title openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2019-670) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2018-975.NASL description This 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 seen 2020-06-05 modified 2018-09-07 plugin id 117353 published 2018-09-07 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/117353 title openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-975) 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 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)
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References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9f62f742fd4fcd81654a9533b8a71349b064250840592bcd502dcfb6%40%3Cusers.pdfbox.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/r43491b25b2e5c368c34b106a82eff910a5cea3e90de82ad75cc16540%40%3Cdev.syncope.apache.org%3E