GHSA-p699-3wgc-7h72

org.apache.tika:tika-parsers has an Infinite Loop vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2018-1339

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.apache.tika:tika-parsers	< 1.18	1.18

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Versions of the package `org.apache.tika:tika-parsers` before version 1.18 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file that can trigger an infinite loop via the ChmParser.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1339 advisory
https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/1b6ca3685c196cfd89f5f95c19cc919ce10c5aff#diff-43f8cbe58aaab159ce88bd95fafc46dd web
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669 web
https://github.com/apache/tika package
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d2cb5c819401bb075e2a1130e0d14f0404a136541a6f91da0225828@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E web