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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2021-27807 EUVD-2021-1242GHSA-2h3j-m7gr-25xj

A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an infinite loop while loading the file

Published Mar 19, 2021 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by apache

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache PDFBox Apache PDFBox – ≤ 2.0.22 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libpdfbox2-java 2.0.23-1 —
Debian 13 libpdfbox2-java 2.0.23-1 —
Debian 12 libpdfbox2-java 2.0.23-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 libpdfbox-java +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libpdfbox-java +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 libpdfbox-java +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libpdfbox-java +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libpdfbox-java +1 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libpdfbox-java +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libpdfbox-java +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libpdfbox-java No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.23 2.0.23 GHSA-2h3j-m7gr-25xj

References