Bug 1340396 (CVE-2016-2175)

Summary:	CVE-2016-2175 pdfbox: XML External Entity vulnerability
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aileenc, alazarot, aszczucz, bdawidow, bkearney, chazlett, epp-bugs, etirelli, gvarsami, java-sig-commits, jcoleman, jolee, jpallich, kconner, kverlaen, ldimaggi, lpetrovi, mbaluch, meissner, mweiler, mwinkler, nwallace, puntogil, rrajasek, rwagner, rzhang, soa-p-jira, tcunning, theute, thomas, tkasparek, tkirby, tlestach, vhalbert
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	pdfbox 1.8.12, pdfbox 2.0.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	It was found that the parsing of XMP and other XML formats in PDF by Apache PDFBox would expand entity references. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 02:53:02 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1340397, 1387353, 1387354
Bug Blocks:	1340390, 1398009, 1412839, 1415286

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-05-27 09:32:17 UTC

Apache PDFBox parses different XML data within PDF files such as XMP and the initialization of the XML parsers did not protect against XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerabilities.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/419

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-05-27 09:33:14 UTC

Created pdfbox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1340397]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-07-12 02:24:02 UTC

pdfbox-1.8.8-6.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-07-18 18:28:47 UTC

pdfbox-1.8.11-2.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-19 20:21:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Fuse/A-MQ 6.3 Rollup 1

Via RHSA-2017:0179 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 20:42:55 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6.4.1

Via RHSA-2017:0249 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0249.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 20:43:51 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4.1

Via RHSA-2017:0248 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0248.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-14 16:42:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6.3 Update 4

Via RHSA-2017:0272 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0272.html