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.

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

  - 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. (CVE-2018-11797)

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

Update to 2.0.16

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This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following security issue :

  - CVE-2018-11797: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger     an extremely long running computation when parsing the     page tree. (bsc#1111009) :

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following security issue :

  - CVE-2018-8036: A crafted file could have triggered an     infinite loop which lead to DoS (bsc#1099721).

  - CVE-2018-11797: A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger     an extremely long running computation when parsing the     page tree. (bsc#1111009) :

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

It was discovered that there was a denial of service vulnerability in libpdfbox-java, a PDF library for Java.

A malicious PDF file could have triggered an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in libpdfbox-java version 1:1.8.7+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

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
253925	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-11797	Nessus	Misc.	medium
129630	Fedora 31 : pdfbox (2019-88f53a7433)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
128625	Fedora 30 : pdfbox (2019-9e91afa2be)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
128624	Fedora 29 : pdfbox (2019-6fa01d12b4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
123377	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2019-924)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
119027	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-1422)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
118381	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-1245)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
118157	Debian DLA-1547-1 : libpdfbox-java security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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