Bug 2127974 (CVE-2021-37819)

Summary:	CVE-2021-37819 pdftk-java: infinite loop via the component /text/pdf/PdfReader.java
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Zack Miele <zmiele>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Zack Miele 2022-09-19 13:58:47 UTC

PDF Labs pdftk-java v3.2.3 was discovered to contain an infinite loop via the component /text/pdf/PdfReader.java.

https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk/-/merge_requests/21/diffs?commit_id=9b0cbb76c8434a8505f02ada02a94263dcae9247#diff-content-b3cfd29983c793bcae2375502abd5baa8f5d1081

Comment 1 Robert Scheck 2022-09-19 16:27:25 UTC

Please note that pdftk-java is not by PDF Labs, it is a GCJ-free port of PDF Labs PDFtk. Aside of that the affected version v3.2.3 was never part of Fedora, the earliest packaged version in Fedora is v3.3.1.