CVE-2018-8036: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

July 3, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

In Apache PDFBox, a carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop which leads to an out of memory exception in the AFMParser.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8036

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