Apache PDFBox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory exception while loading a file. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted PDF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

Apache PDFBox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error while loading a file. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted PDF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the system to enter into an infinite loop.

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

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

A vulnerability related to parsing was found in Apache PDFBox parser. A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the page tree.

External References:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a9760973a873522f4d4c0a99916ceb74f361d91006b663a0a418d34a@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

In Apache PDFBox 1.8.0 to 1.8.14 and 2.0.0RC1 to 2.0.10, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in Apache PDFBox's AFMParser.