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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 16:33
VLAI
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
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox Affected: 1.8.0 to 1.8.15
Affected: 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11
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Date Public
2018-10-05 00:00
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