[CVE-2018-11797] DoS vulnerability in Apache PDFBox parser

Severity: Important

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Apache PDFBox <= 1.8.15
Apache PDFBox <= 2.0.11
Earlier, unsupported Apache PDFBox versions may be affected as well

Description:
A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long
running computation when parsing the page tree.

Mitigation:
Upgrade to Apache PDFBox 1.8.16 respectively 2.0.12

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Shawn Rasheed and Jens Dietrich

Website:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/

Download:
https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.cgi
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/2.0.12/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/1.8.16/RELEASE-NOTES.txt