Security update for apache-pdfbox
This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following issues: Update to version 2.0.36. Security issues fixed: - CVE-2026-33929: path traversal in the `ExtractEmbeddedFiles` example code can lead to arbitrary file writes (bsc#1262046). Other updates and bugfixes: - Version 2.0.36: - XMPBox removes namespaces on serialization - False negative on PDFA-1b validation : missing field type - PlainText.Paragraph.getLines extremely slow on long lines - Valid PDF/A 1B is rejected - Potential StackOverflows in BaseParser - Unknown code in Huffman RLE stream - IllegalArgumentException: Can't add attribute to 0-length text - TTFSubsetter.buildGlyfTable() modifies glyphIds while iterating over its entries possibly causing ConcurrentModificationException to be thrown - IndexOutOfBoundsException in Type1CharStringParser.processCallSubr() - Exception "No type defined for {http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/}rev" when trying to determine version of PDF/A-4 document - allow new PDF/A-4 conformance levels - pdfbox-app-X.X.X-sources.jar on maven central are empty (and javadoc jar is missing) - Cmd line docs - IllegalArgumentException: Multiplying two matrices produces illegal values in PDFStreamEngine.processAnnotation() - XmpParsingException: Schema is not set in this document: http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent# - NullPointerException in FontMapperImpl.getFontMatches() - border style in FDFAnnotation is not initialized if width is 0 - German umlauts are not rendered - Invalid type in Schema not detected when in XML attributes - Serializing produces date "1-01-01T00:00:00+01:00" - Seconds of date "D:2015-02-03T10:11:12" returned as 0 - Confusing naming of "DerivedFrom" property getter in XMPMediaManagementSchema - ClassCastException in XMPMediaManagementSchema.getHistory() - IllegalArgumentException: Input buffer too short in StandardSecurityHandler.computeRC4key() - IllegalArgumentException: Width (0) and height (0) cannot be <= 0 when printing landscape rotated with RASTERIZE_DPI_AUTO - DateConverter fails on valid date - ClassCastException: class org.apache.xmpbox.type.TextType cannot be cast to class org.apache.xmpbox.type.ArrayProperty in DublinCoreSchema.getCreatorsProperty() - tiff:YCbCrSubSampling and tiff:YCbCrPositioning have wrong cardinality - ClassCastException: class org.apache.xmpbox.type.FlashType - Cannot find a definition for the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#, property: rdf:Description http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#, property:stEvt:action - XmpParsingException: Missing pdfaSchema:property in type definition in lenient mode - XmpParsingException: Unknown property value type : Open Choice of Integer - XmpParsingException: Property 'CountryCode' not defined in http://www.epo.org/patent-bibliographic-data/1.0/ - date "0-00-00T00:00:00-04:00" read as "0002-11-30T00:00:00-40:00" - XmpParsingException: Type 'stRef:documentName' not defined in http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef# in lenient mode - Invalid PDF/A namespace definition, prefix: xmlns, namespace: http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/ http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/, property: pdfaExtension:schemas - NegativeArraySizeException in PredictorOutputStream() - NullpointerException in PDAcroForm.getField(Line 485) - OutOfMemoryError when trying to extract text from pdf - Outlines circular reference vulnerability - Rendered text missing - Inverted images due to enlarged decode array - PDF displays garbled characters in Adobe Reader but renders correctly in web browsers - NullPointerException while merging PDFs with output intents - Valid XMP Extension Schema rejected - Remove dead code from PDFMarkedContentExtractor - Include test file in test class - Get and Add PageTextSchema - Remove / deprecate TypeMapping.getAssociatedSchemaObject() - Support Seq / Bag mixup in lenient mode - Parse xmp files in lenient mode that have no processing instructions - deprecate getPDFIdentificationSchema() in favor of getPDFAIdentificationSchema() - Support TIFF-files with FillOrder=2 conversion to PDF - Remove / deprecate unused parts of PDIndexed - modernize rat exclusions - Version 2.0.35: - NegativeArraySizeException with PDF file with huge fonts - Inline image bug with multi-byte newline tokens - fix initial ByteArrayOutputStream size for deflate operation - PDF takes an hour to render - Splitter does not include structure tree in documents past the first split - build fails on jdk11 - Load a TTF font which is from Mac OS throw an exception - Wrong glyphs since PDFBOX-5790 - ClassCastException on broken file in PDEmbeddedFilesNameTreeNode.convertCOSToPD() - invalid XMP generated when Apache Xalan in the classpath - XMP JobType constructor ignores fieldPrefix - NullPointerException in xmpbox serializer if a date is empty - Rendering issue with
Security update for apache-pdfbox
Description
This update for apache-pdfbox fixes the following issues: Update to version 2.0.36. Security issues fixed: - CVE-2026-33929: path traversal in the `ExtractEmbeddedFiles` example code can lead to arbitrary file writes (bsc#1262046). Other updates and bugfixes: - Version 2.0.36: - XMPBox removes namespaces on serialization - False negative on PDFA-1b validation : missing field type - PlainText.Paragraph.getLines extremely slow on long lines - Valid PDF/A 1B is rejected - Potential StackOverflows in BaseParser - Unknown code in Huffman RLE stream - IllegalArgumentException: Can't add attribute to 0-length text - TTFSubsetter.buildGlyfTable() modifies glyphIds while iterating over its entries possibly causing ConcurrentModificationException to be thrown - IndexOutOfBoundsException in Type1CharStringParser.processCallSubr() - Exception "No type defined for {http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/id/}rev" when trying to determine version of PDF/A-4 document - allow new PDF/A-4 conformance levels - pdfbox-app-X.X.X-sources.jar on maven central are empty (and javadoc jar is missing) - Cmd line docs - IllegalArgumentException: Multiplying two matrices produces illegal values in PDFStreamEngine.processAnnotation() - XmpParsingException: Schema is not set in this document: http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent# - NullPointerException in FontMapperImpl.getFontMatches() - border style in FDFAnnotation is not initialized if width is 0 - German umlauts are not rendered - Invalid type in Schema not detected when in XML attributes - Serializing produces date "1-01-01T00:00:00+01:00" - Seconds of date "D:2015-02-03T10:11:12" returned as 0 - Confusing naming of "DerivedFrom" property getter in XMPMediaManagementSchema - ClassCastException in XMPMediaManagementSchema.getHistory() - IllegalArgumentException: Input buffer too short in StandardSecurityHandler.computeRC4key() - IllegalArgumentException: Width (0) and height (0) cannot be <= 0 when printing landscape rotated with RASTERIZE_DPI_AUTO - DateConverter fails on valid date - ClassCastException: class org.apache.xmpbox.type.TextType cannot be cast to class org.apache.xmpbox.type.ArrayProperty in DublinCoreSchema.getCreatorsProperty() - tiff:YCbCrSubSampling and tiff:YCbCrPositioning have wrong cardinality - ClassCastException: class org.apache.xmpbox.type.FlashType - Cannot find a definition for the namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#, property: rdf:Description http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceEvent#, property:stEvt:action - XmpParsingException: Missing pdfaSchema:property in type definition in lenient mode - XmpParsingException: Unknown property value type : Open Choice of Integer - XmpParsingException: Property 'CountryCode' not defined in http://www.epo.org/patent-bibliographic-data/1.0/ - date "0-00-00T00:00:00-04:00" read as "0002-11-30T00:00:00-40:00" - XmpParsingException: Type 'stRef:documentName' not defined in http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef# in lenient mode - Invalid PDF/A namespace definition, prefix: xmlns, namespace: http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/ http://www.aiim.org/pdfa/ns/extension/, property: pdfaExtension:schemas - NegativeArraySizeException in PredictorOutputStream() - NullpointerException in PDAcroForm.getField(Line 485) - OutOfMemoryError when trying to extract text from pdf - Outlines circular reference vulnerability - Rendered text missing - Inverted images due to enlarged decode array - PDF displays garbled characters in Adobe Reader but renders correctly in web browsers - NullPointerException while merging PDFs with output intents - Valid XMP Extension Schema rejected - Remove dead code from PDFMarkedContentExtractor - Include test file in test class - Get and Add PageTextSchema - Remove / deprecate TypeMapping.getAssociatedSchemaObject() - Support Seq / Bag mixup in lenient mode - Parse xmp files in lenient mode that have no processing instructions - deprecate getPDFIdentificationSchema() in favor of getPDFAIdentificationSchema() - Support TIFF-files with FillOrder=2 conversion to PDF - Remove / deprecate unused parts of PDIndexed - modernize rat exclusions - Version 2.0.35: - NegativeArraySizeException with PDF file with huge fonts - Inline image bug with multi-byte newline tokens - fix initial ByteArrayOutputStream size for deflate operation - PDF takes an hour to render - Splitter does not include structure tree in documents past the first split - build fails on jdk11 - Load a TTF font which is from Mac OS throw an exception - Wrong glyphs since PDFBOX-5790 - ClassCastException on broken file in PDEmbeddedFilesNameTreeNode.convertCOSToPD() - invalid XMP generated when Apache Xalan in the classpath - XMP JobType constructor ignores fieldPrefix - NullPointerException in xmpbox serializer if a date is empty - Rendering issue with
Affected software
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- SUSE Product Security Team
- Advisory Id
- openSUSE-SU-2026:20923-1
- Cve Count
- 2
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2026-33929"]
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6aab497e55bf5e2cf5990ead
Added to database: 09/17/2026, 01:59:26 UTC
Last updated: 09/17/2026, 02:02:25 UTC
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