Advisories » MGASA-2021-0184

Updated pdfbox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 12 Apr 2021
Modification date: 12 Apr 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-27807 , CVE-2021-27906

Description

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the
file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior
2.0.x versions (CVE-2021-27807).

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while
loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox Apache PDFBox version
2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions (CVE-2021-27906).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28682
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/9
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/10
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27807
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27906

SRPMS

8/core

• pdfbox-2.0.23-1.mga8