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CVE-2018-11797

Published: Oct 05, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11797
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PdfboxApache1.8.0 (including)1.8.15 (including)
PdfboxApache2.0.1 (including)2.0.11 (including)
PdfboxApache2.0-rc1 (including)2.0-rc1 (including)
PdfboxApache2.0-rc2 (including)2.0-rc2 (including)
PdfboxApache2.0-rc3 (including)2.0-rc3 (including)
PdfboxApache2.0.0 (including)2.0.0 (including)
Red Hat Fuse 7.7.0RedHatpdfbox*
Libpdfbox-javaUbuntubionic*
Libpdfbox-javaUbuntucosmic*
Libpdfbox-javaUbuntuesm-apps/bionic*
Libpdfbox-javaUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
Libpdfbox-javaUbuntutrusty*
Libpdfbox-javaUbuntuupstream*
Libpdfbox-javaUbuntuxenial*
Libpdfbox2-javaUbuntubionic*
Libpdfbox2-javaUbuntucosmic*
Libpdfbox2-javaUbuntuesm-apps/bionic*
Libpdfbox2-javaUbuntuupstream*

References

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