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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2022-24196 EUVD-2022-1046GHSA-hhh6-cm2m-3fhc

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in iText

Published Feb 1, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

iText v7.1.17, up to (exluding)": 7.1.18 and 7.2.2 was discovered to contain an out-of-memory error via the component readStreamBytesRaw, which allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PDF file.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven com.itextpdf:itext7-core < 7.1.18 7.1.18 GHSA-hhh6-cm2m-3fhc

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