MGASA-2016-0253

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    MGASA-2016-0253

    Published: 14 Jul 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-2175

    Summary: Updated pdfbox packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF (CVE-2016-2175).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0253.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18558, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/27/1, https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3606

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pdfbox

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/pdfbox?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.8.7-1.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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