CVE-2017-12626: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

January 29, 2018 (updated October 16, 2019)

Apache POI is vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks through infinite loops while parsing crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros or Out of Memory Exceptions while parsing crafted DOC, PPT and XLS.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/102879
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12626

Code Behaviors & Features

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