CVE-2018-1338 (GCVE-0-2018-1338)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-04-25 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:07
VLAI
Summary
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • DoS Vulnerability-- infinite loop
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 934 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika Affected: < 1.18
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Date Public
2018-04-25 00:00
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