Bug 2388032 - CVE-2025-8885 pdftk-java: Bouncy Castle denial of service parsing ASN.1 Object Identifiers [fedora-42] [NEEDINFO]
Summary: CVE-2025-8885 pdftk-java: Bouncy Castle denial of service parsing ASN.1 Objec...
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pdftk-java
Version: 42
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Robert Scheck
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["0b79a045-5fc5-4f81-9281-1...
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Blocks: CVE-2025-8885
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Reported: 2025-08-12 19:36 UTC by Jon Moroney
Modified: 2025-08-12 19:58 UTC (History)
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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…


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