CVE-2018-1338: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

October 17, 2018 (updated September 1, 2021)

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

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
github.com/advisories/GHSA-5mf7-26mw-3rqr
lists.apache.org/thread.html/4d20c5748fb9f836653bc78a1bad991ba8485d82a1e821f70b641932@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1338

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