Bug 1572421 (CVE-2018-1338) - CVE-2018-1338 tika: Infinite loop in BPGParser can allow remote attacker to cause a denial of service
Summary: CVE-2018-1338 tika: Infinite loop in BPGParser can allow remote attacker to c...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-1338
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1572422 1572423 1614538
Blocks: 1572420
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-27 01:32 UTC by Sam Fowler
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:24 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: tika 1.18
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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.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:20:40 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2669 0 None None None 2018-09-11 07:55:29 UTC

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.


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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
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