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

  - 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)

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.

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-017627 advisory.

    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.

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

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

Update to 2.0.16

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.

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.

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
422624	SCA: security update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	3/28/2025	7/2/2026	medium
422624	SCA: security update for org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox (GHSA-gx96-vgf7-hwfg)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	3/28/2025	7/2/2026	medium
123377	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2019-924)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	3/27/2019	6/10/2024	medium
313920	Unity Linux 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: pdfbox (UTSA-2026-017627)	Nessus	Unity Linux Local Security Checks	5/11/2026	5/11/2026	medium
128624	Fedora 29 : pdfbox (2019-6fa01d12b4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/10/2019	4/26/2024	critical
129630	Fedora 31 : pdfbox (2019-88f53a7433)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	10/7/2019	4/19/2024	critical
118381	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-1245)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	10/25/2018	7/29/2024	medium
119027	openSUSE Security Update : apache-pdfbox (openSUSE-2018-1422)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/19/2018	7/22/2024	medium
118157	Debian DLA-1547-1 : libpdfbox-java security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	10/17/2018	7/31/2024	medium
128625	Fedora 30 : pdfbox (2019-9e91afa2be)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/10/2019	4/26/2024	critical
253925	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-11797	Nessus	Misc.	8/24/2025	9/2/2026	medium

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