A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7529-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Apache Tika can have an excessive memory usage by using a crafted or corrupt PSD     file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-1950, CVE-2020-1951)

    It was discovered that Apache Tika incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-30126, CVE-2022-30973, CVE-2022-33879)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4564-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Apache Tika can have an excessive memory usage by using a crafted or corrupt PSD     file. An attacker could use it to cause a denial of service (crash). (CVE-2020-1950, CVE-2020-1951)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Two security issues have been detected in tika and fixed.

CVE-2020-1950: carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache.

CVE-2020-1951: Infinite Loop (DoS) vulnerability in Apache Tika's PSDParser.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.5-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your tika 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
237252	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Apache Tika vulnerabilities (USN-7529-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
141180	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Apache Tika vulnerabilities (USN-4564-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
134982	Debian DLA-2161-1 : tika security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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