Apache PDFBox versions 1.8.0 through 1.8.14 and 2.0.0 through 2.0.10 suffer from a denial of service vulnerability.
5406ad0a860326fc8d216333b6555570[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
Website:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/
Download:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/2.0.11/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.15/RELEASE-NOTES.txt