CVE-2016-2175

Name	CVE-2016-2175
Description	Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-505-1, DSA-3606-1
NVD severity	high

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
libpdfbox-java (PTS)	stretch	1:1.8.12-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid, buster, bullseye	1:1.8.16-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
libpdfbox-java	source	wheezy	1:1.7.0+dfsg-4+deb7u1	DLA-505-1
libpdfbox-java	source	jessie	1:1.8.7+dfsg-1+deb8u1	DSA-3606-1
libpdfbox-java	source	(unstable)	1:1.8.12-1

Notes

Fixed on upstream 1.8 branch in https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739564
Fixed on upstream 2.0 branch in https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1739565