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SUSE-SU-2018:3318-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2018-10-23 09:13 - Updated: 2026-09-20 12:58

Summary

Security update for apache-pdfbox

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for apache-pdfbox

Description of the patch: 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):

Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-2391

CVE-2018-11797

7.5 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Recommended 4 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3:apache-pdfbox-0:1.8.12-3.5.4.noarch	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3:apache-pdfbox-0:1.8.12-3.5.4.noarch	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3:apache-pdfbox-0:1.8.12-3.5.4.noarch	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3:apache-pdfbox-0:1.8.12-3.5.4.noarch	—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact important

CVE-2018-8036

5.9 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Recommended 4 products, the same list as for CVE-2018-11797

Threats

Impact moderate

References

12 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/s…	self
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/…	self
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-upd…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099721	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111009	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11797/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8036/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11797	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111009	external
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8036	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099721	external

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CVE-2018-11797 (GCVE-0-2018-11797)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:33

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

DoS vulnerability

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/645574bc50b8…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54594251369…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache PDFBox	Affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 Affected: 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11

Date Public

2018-10-05 00:00

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CVE-2018-8036 (GCVE-0-2018-8036)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-03 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:28

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

DoS (OOM) Vulnerability

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

6 references

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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r43491b25b2e…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache PDFBox	Affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 Affected: 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10

Date Public

2018-06-29 00:00

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