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[CVE-2020-1950] Excessive memory usage (DoS) vulnerability in Apache Tika's PSDParser

From: Tim Allison <tallison () apache org>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:01:41 -0400

Title: [CVE-2020-1950] Excessive memory usage (DoS) vulnerability in Apache
Tika's PSDParser

Severity: Medium

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected: Apache Tika  1.0 to 1.23

Description:
A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in
Apache
Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.


Mitigation:
Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.24 or later.


Credit:
This issue was discovered by Pierre Ernst at Elastic.

Current thread:

[CVE-2020-1950] Excessive memory usage (DoS) vulnerability in Apache Tika's PSDParser Tim Allison (Mar 18)