CVE-2018-11761

NameCVE-2018-11761
DescriptionIn Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tika (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.5-1+deb8u1vulnerable
buster1.20-1fixed
sid, bullseye1.22-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
tikasource(unstable)1.20-1

Notes

[jessie] - tika <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/09/19/4
When fixing this issue the fix needs to be made complete to not open
CVE-2018-11796. The full fix is only in 1.19.1 onwards.

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