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David Horwitz updated PDFBOX-647:
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Attachment: Function Structure example.pdf
It appears the document is corrupted in some way - acroread opens it after a
rebuild. Note this behaviour makes systems that run the code vunerable to a DOS
attack from a document structured in this way.
> Invalid dictionary causes infinate loop
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> Key: PDFBOX-647
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-647
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Parsing
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: David Horwitz
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: Function Structure example.pdf
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> Parsing a pdf document seemed to cause pdfbox to go into an infinate loop
> logging the following:
> 2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser -
> Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
> 2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser -
> Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
> 2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser -
> Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
> 2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser -
> Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
> 2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser -
> Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
> This caused the app servers log to fill up all available space ....
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