Bug 1572421 (CVE-2018-1338)

Summary:	CVE-2018-1338 tika: Infinite loop in BPGParser can allow remote attacker to cause a denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abergmann, aileenc, alazarot, anstephe, bkearney, chazlett, drieden, etirelli, gvarsami, hhorak, ibek, java-sig-commits, jcoleman, jolee, jorton, jschatte, jstastny, kconner, krathod, kverlaen, ldimaggi, lef, lpetrovi, meissner, nwallace, paradhya, pavelp, puntogil, rhel8-maint, rrajasek, rsynek, rwagner, rzhang, sdaley, sfowler, tcunning, tkirby, tlestach, vhalbert
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	tika 1.18	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	An infinite loop vulnerability was discovered in Apache Tika prior to version 1.18. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via crafted file.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:20:40 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1572422, 1572423, 1614538
Bug Blocks:	1572420

Description Sam Fowler 2018-04-27 01:32:53 UTC

Apache Tika before version 1.18 has an infinite loop vulnerability in the BPGParser. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service via crafted file.


External References:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-04-27 01:34:49 UTC

Created tika tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1572423]

Comment 7 Doran Moppert 2018-04-30 06:26:05 UTC

Package rh-eclipse46-tika in Red Hat Software Collections does not include the image/BPG parser which contains this vulnerability.

Comment 8 Andrej Nemec 2018-05-14 15:53:30 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of tika which is embedded in the nutch package  as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 5. The tika server is not exposed, as such exploitation is difficult, Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2018-09-11 07:55:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Fuse

Via RHSA-2018:2669 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669