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Tilman Hausherr resolved PDFBOX-4997.
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    Fix Version/s: 3.0.0 PDFBox
                   2.0.22
         Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
       Resolution: Fixed

I've summarized your text as a comment in the hope that it will warn us the 
next time we get some really weird problems. Thanks again.

> Incremental update adds certain objects not marked as needing update
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-4997
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4997
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Writing
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.21, 3.0.0 PDFBox
>            Reporter: Michael Klink
>            Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 2.0.22, 3.0.0 PDFBox
>
>         Attachments: signed-000.pdf
>
>
> _This bug causes the eSignature DSS issue 
> [DSS-2260|https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/tracker/browse/DSS-2260]._
> If during an incremental update an indirect object containing only a name 
> object is checked for need of writing, it always is added to the objects to 
> write and, therefore, eventually written to the update section.
> For example in the attached document {{signed-000.pdf}} each page has a color 
> space resource entry *CS1* referring to the indirect object 54 containing 
> only the name object, *DeviceGray*. Whenever a page is marked as needing an 
> update, the bug causes object 54 also to be written even if it is not changed 
> at all.
> While this seems like a minor annoyance only, it has serious repercussions: 
> In multi-signature use cases this makes Adobe Reader claim previous 
> signatures to be broken whenever a new signature with visualization is added 
> using PDFBox, see also 
> [DSS-2260|https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/tracker/browse/DSS-2260].
> ----
> The cause of the bug is 
> {{org.apache.pdfbox.pdfwriter.COSWriter.addObjectToWrite(COSBase)}} where the 
> following {{if}} clause attempts to determine whether the inspected object 
> does not need to be written:
> {code:java}
> if (actual != null && objectKeys.containsKey(actual) 
>     && object instanceof COSUpdateInfo && 
> !((COSUpdateInfo)object).isNeedToBeUpdated() 
>     && cosBase instanceof COSUpdateInfo && 
> !((COSUpdateInfo)cosBase).isNeedToBeUpdated() )
> {
>     return;
> }
> {code}
> Here {{cosBase}} contains the content of the indirect object, in the case in 
> question the {{COSName}} *DeviceGray*. As {{COSName}} does not implement 
> {{COSUpdateInfo}}, the condition never evaluates to {{true}}, so the flow 
> never returns here but instead always continues with the following lines 
> where the object is added to the collection of objects to write.



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