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openSUSE: 2022:4756-1 moderate: apache-tika DoS Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Tackling critical security issues for openSUSE community members in relation to apache-pdfbox flaws. Remain protected!
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

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):

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1245=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

apache-pdfbox-1.8.12-4.3.1

apache-pdfbox-javadoc-1.8.12-4.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11797.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8036.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1099721

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111009

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3384-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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