CVE-2018-17202: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

May 6, 2019 (updated October 3, 2019)

Certain input files could make the parser enter an infinite loop when Apache Sanselan (aka Apache Commons Imaging) was used to parse them, which could be used in a DoS attack.

References

lists.apache.org/thread.html/69204376d12205b0d2d90e6fcbeebb99b894e6db88c8ff565c4e1efa@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17202

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