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tika — security advisory
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's ChmParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.
- Products
- tika
- Affected versions
- 1.22-2, 1.5-2, 1.5-3, 1.5-4, 1.5-4ubuntu0.1, 1.5-5
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1339
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's ChmParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1339
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Complete source record
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