UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1338

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1338

    Published: 25 Apr 2018Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-1338

    Summary:

    Details: A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's BPGParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1338, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/04/25/6, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1338

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tika

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.5-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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