Bug 2388032

Summary: CVE-2025-8885 pdftk-java: Bouncy Castle denial of service parsing ASN.1 Object Identifiers [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component: pdftk-javaAssignee: Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla>
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Description Jon Moroney 2025-08-12 19:36:31 UTC 
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Comment 1 Robert Scheck 2025-08-12 19:58:30 UTC 
Jon, why did you file this report against the pdftk-java RPM package? The security flaw is in the bouncycastle RPM package, if I am not completely mistaken…