Awesome. That's good to hear. Thanks for the feedback, helix.

Regards,

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:03 PM, helix84 <heli...@centrum.sk> wrote:
> Hi Alan, I filed a (non-public) security issue when it was first
> reported. Seems like an easy fix to just upgrade pdfbox, but we'll
> still have to test it before we release it in stable updates. Don't
> worry, it's not getting overlooked.
>
>
> Regards,
> ~~helix84
>
> Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any DSpace committer want to comment on this? There are security
>> vulnerabilities in the PDF library DSpace uses, and DSpace is used in
>> an environment where users upload arbitrary PDFs to be processed by
>> the system...
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Good catch, Seth. I bumped up the versions of all three pdfbox
>>> components from 1.8.7 to 1.8.12 on our DSpace 5.1 instance and DSpace
>>> builds and runs fine. I haven't done any other tests, though.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Seth Robbins <robbins...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> I thought I'd bring this to the attention of the community:
>>>> There appears to be a vulnerability in the version of PDFBox that Dspace is
>>>> set to use (2.0.0, 1.8.7).
>>>>
>>>> https://pdfbox.apache.org/
>>>>
>>>> Looks like the most recent versions,  2.0.1 and 1.8.12, are patched.
>>>> I'm looking into bumping our DSpace 5 installation to use 1.8.12, but have
>>>> not tested it yet.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Seth
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