| Name | CVE-2018-11797 |
| Description | In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.15 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.11, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree. |
| 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-1547-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 910390, 910391 |
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 | vulnerable |
| buster, bullseye, bookworm | 1:1.8.16-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.8.16-5 | fixed |
| libpdfbox2-java (PTS) | buster | 2.0.13-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.0.23-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.0.27-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.0.29-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - libpdfbox-java <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/05/4
https://svn.apache.org/r1842131 (branch 2.0)
https://svn.apache.org/r1842278 (branch 1.8)