| Name | CVE-2016-2175 |
| Description | Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-505-1, DSA-3606-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libpdfbox-java (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:1.8.7+dfsg-1+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch | 1:1.8.12-1 | fixed |
| buster, bullseye, bookworm | 1:1.8.16-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.8.16-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
Fixed on upstream 1.8 branch in https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739564
Fixed on upstream 2.0 branch in https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739565