UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2175

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-2175
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2175.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2175
Upstream
Published
2016-06-01T20:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:45:37Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libpdfbox-java

Package

Name
libpdfbox-java
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libpdfbox-java@1:1.8.11+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:1.*

1:1.8.7+dfsg-1
1:1.8.10-1
1:1.8.10-2
1:1.8.11+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libfontbox-java",
            "binary_version": "1:1.8.11+dfsg-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libjempbox-java",
            "binary_version": "1:1.8.11+dfsg-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpdfbox-java",
            "binary_version": "1:1.8.11+dfsg-1"
        }
    ]
}