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Fedora 33: FEDORA-2021-3d94c14be4 Major: pdfbox Memory & Loop Problems

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A recent security patch for Fedora 33 tackles vulnerabilities in pdfbox, providing essential updates to securely process specially designed PDF documents.
Update to 2.0.24 (#1970761) Security fix for CVE-2021-31812 and CVE-2021-31811

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 2.0.24 (#1970761) Security fix for CVE-2021-31812 and CVE-2021-31811

* Fri Jun 11 2021 Fedora Release Monitoring - 2.0.24-1

- Update to 2.0.24 (#1970761)

[ 1 ] Bug #1971648 - CVE-2021-31811 pdfbox: OutOfMemory-Exception while loading a crafted PDF file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1971648

[ 2 ] Bug #1971658 - CVE-2021-31812 pdfbox: infinite loop while loading a crafted PDF file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1971658

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-3d94c14be4' at the command

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

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

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 2.0.24
Release: 1.fc33
Summary: Apache PDFBox library for working with PDF documents

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