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Calendar Grey September 9, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The update for pdfbox 2.0.16 in Fedora 30 addresses multiple security issues that could potentially impact users.
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

[ 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-2019-9e91afa2be' 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 30
Version: 2.0.16
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: Apache PDFBox library for working with PDF documents

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