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Apache Tika BPGParser Memory Usage DoS

Type: advisorySources: OSV

The BPG parser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.28.2 and 2.4.0 may allocate an unreasonable amount of memory on carefully crafted files.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2022-25169
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 04:13 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Apache Tika BPGParser Memory Usage DoS

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 May 2022, 17:05 UTC

The BPG parser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.28.2 and 2.4.0 may allocate an unreasonable amount of memory on carefully crafted files.

osv:CVE-2022-25169
Complete source record
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