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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-2347

NPE while creating security handler for decryption

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 2.0.0
    • 1.8.7, 2.0.0
    • Parsing

    Description

      The attached file has a NPE with the non sequential parser only:

      Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Error (NullPointerException) while creating security handler for decryption
              at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.NonSequentialPDFParser.initialParse(NonSe
      quentialPDFParser.java:493)
              at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.NonSequentialPDFParser.parse(NonSequentialPDFParser.java:794)
              at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.loadNonSeq(PDDocument.java:1156)
      
              at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.loadNonSeq(PDDocument.java:1139)
      
              at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFToImage.main(PDFToImage.java:197)
              at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:89)
      Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
              at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.PDEncryption.getFilter(PDEncrypt
      ion.java:159)
              at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.encryption.PDEncryption.<init>(PDEncryption.java:96)
              at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.NonSequentialPDFParser.initialParse(NonSe
      quentialPDFParser.java:464)
      

      The file has this:

      trailer
      <<
      /Size
      53
      /Info
      29 0 R
      /Encrypt
      null
      /Root
      35 0 R
      /Prev
      256729
      /ID
      [
      <f571e5c0c658cb76cfe7ad0662f8f6a1>
      <1c11ae9224c83622f7682d9e00bd2581>
      ]
      >>
      

      so the encryption item is COSNull which is not the same as "null" when using getItem(). So the solution is to use getDictionaryObject() instead, because it checks for COSNull. This method is already used elsewhere in PDFBox to get /Encrypt.

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        1. PDFBOX-2347-263071.pdf
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          Tilman Hausherr

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