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  1. PDFBox
  2. PDFBOX-5163

Stack overflow when reading a corrupt dictionary

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.0.23, 3.0.0 PDFBox
    • 2.0.24, 3.0.0 PDFBox
    • Parsing
    • None

    Description

      Richard Smith/Chaoyuan Peng reported an issue with the current version 2.0.23. When parsing a carefully handcrafted pdf the following exception occurs and PDFBox crashes:

      java.lang.StackOverflowError: null
    java.util.WeakHashMap.eq(Unknown Source)
    java.util.WeakHashMap.get(Unknown Source)
    java.util.Collections$SynchronizedMap.get(Unknown Source)
    org.apache.pdfbox.debugger.ui.LogDialog.log(LogDialog.java:143)
    org.apache.pdfbox.debugger.ui.DebugLog.warn(DebugLog.java:156)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseDirObject(BaseParser.java:933)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseCOSDictionaryValue(BaseParser.java:154)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseCOSDictionaryNameValuePair(BaseParser.java:283)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseCOSDictionary(BaseParser.java:216)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseDirObject(BaseParser.java:859)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseFileObject(COSParser.java:917)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseObjectDynamically(COSParser.java:886)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseObjectDynamically(COSParser.java:806)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.getLength(COSParser.java:1060)

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          Andreas Lehmkühler

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          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. PDFBOX-5176 java.io.IOException: Page tree root must be a dictionary

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              lehmi Andreas Lehmkühler
              lehmi Andreas Lehmkühler
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