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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2016-2175)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2016-2175)

Security fix for CVE-2016-2175

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that pdfbox, a PDF library for Java, was susceptible to XML External Entity attacks.

Apache PDFBox did not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF. This may lead to the disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, server side request forgery, port scanning from the perspective of the machine where the parser is located, and other system impacts.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.7.0+dfsg-4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libpdfbox-java packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254092	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-2175	Nessus	Misc.	high
422802	SCA: security update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-4c32-xmgj-2g98)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
422802	SCA: security update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-4c32-xmgj-2g98)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
92391	Fedora 24 : pdfbox (2016-a07cf79284)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
92244	Fedora 23 : pdfbox (2016-3f30a5faeb)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
91837	Debian DSA-3606-1 : libpdfbox-java - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
91522	Debian DLA-505-1 : libpdfbox-java security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2016-2175

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Tenable Plugins

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