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Fedora 29: FEDORA-2019-6fa01d12b4 critical: pdfbox Denial of Service

fedora
Calendar Grey September 9, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important Fedora patch for pdfbox addresses security threats such as service interruptions and XML external entity issues.
Update to 2.0.16

Summary

Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF

documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of

existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache

PDFBox also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is

published under the Apache License v2.0.

Update to 2.0.16

* Sat Aug 31 2019 Orion Poplawski - 2.0.16-1

- Update to 2.0.16 (CVE-2018-8036, CVE-2018-11797, CVE-2019-0228)

* Fri Jul 26 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.0.9-6

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Feb 1 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.0.9-5

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild

* Tue Dec 4 2018 Mat Booth - 2.0.9-4

- Disable examples subpackage that requires obsolete lucene4.

* Fri Jul 13 2018 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.0.9-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

[ 1 ] Bug #1699742 - CVE-2019-0228 pdfbox: XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XFDF [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699742

[ 2 ] Bug #1637494 - CVE-2018-11797 pdfbox: unbounded computation in parser resulting in a denial of service [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1637494

[ 3 ] Bug #1597491 - CVE-2018-8036 pdfbox: Infinite loop in AFMParser.java allows for out of memory erros via crafted PDF [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597491

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-6fa01d12b4' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 2.0.16
Release: 1.fc29
Summary: Apache PDFBox library for working with PDF documents

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