bugtraq - [CVE-2018-8036] DoS (OOM) Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser

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Message-ID: <637b5a18-f7cc-7e13-e0ea-7d89ab8cc689@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:23:14 +0200
From: Andreas Lehmkuehler <lehmi@...che.org>
To: announce@...che.org, dev@...box.apache.org,
  "users@...box.apache.org" <users@...box.apache.org>, security@...che.org,
  oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: [CVE-2018-8036] DoS (OOM) Vulnerability in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser

[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