Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1632466
CVE-2018-8017 tika: infinite loop in the IptcAnpaParser
Last modified: 2018-10-08 07:11:37 EDT
In Apache Tika 1.2 to 1.18, a carefully crafted file can trigger an infinite loop in the IptcAnpaParser. References: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/72df7a3f0dda49a912143a1404b489837a11f374dfd1961061873a91@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
Created tika tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1632467]
Upstream commit: https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/62926cae31a02d4f23d21148435804b96c543cc7
Some more details can be found in: https://www.modzero.ch/modlog/archives/2018/09/20/java_bugs_with_and_without_fuzzing/index.html with test case available at: https://github.com/modzero/mod0javaFuzzingResults/blob/master/12_hang_tika_iptc.iptc