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Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 09:36:36 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Bruno P. Kinoshita" <kinow@...che.org>
To: "announce@...che.org" <announce@...che.org>, 
	"dev@...mons.apache.org" <dev@...mons.apache.org>, 
	"guidovranken@...il.com" <guidovranken@...il.com>, 
	"security@...mons.apache.org" <security@...mons.apache.org>, 
	"oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: [CVE-2018-17202]: Apache Commons Imaging information disclosure
 vulnerability

Severity: Medium

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Apache Sanselan 0.97-incubator

Description:
Certain input files could make the code to enter into an infinite loop when Apache Sanselan  0.97-incubator was used to parse them, which could be used in a DoS attack. Note that Apache Sanselan (incubating) was renamed to Apache Commons Imaging.

Mitigation:
0.97-incubator users should upgrade to commons-imaging-1.0-alpha1

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Guido Vranken.

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17202
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/48a64566999f44290e4fb3b0d2e9a0e1c996902db51258e7aff00dda@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E

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