| Name | CVE-2021-27906 |
| Description | A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the file. This issue affects Apache PDFBox version 2.0.22 and prior 2.0.x versions. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 986008 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libpdfbox-java (PTS) | buster, bookworm, bullseye | 1:1.8.16-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.8.16-5 | fixed |
| libpdfbox2-java (PTS) | buster | 2.0.13-2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.0.23-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.0.27-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.0.29-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - libpdfbox2-java <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
- libpdfbox-java <not-affected> (Only affects 2.x)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/10
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5112
https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/commit/8c47be1011c11dc47300faecffd8ab32fba3646f