[CVE-2018-17202]: Apache Commons Imaging information disclosure vulnerability

["Bruno P. Kinoshita" <kinow () apache org>]

Severity: Medium

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Apache Sanselan 0.97-incubator

Description:
Certain input files could make the code to enter into an infinite loop when Apache Sanselan  0.97-incubator was used to 
parse them, which could be used in a DoS attack. Note that Apache Sanselan (incubating) was renamed to Apache Commons 
Imaging.

Mitigation:
0.97-incubator users should upgrade to commons-imaging-1.0-alpha1

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Guido Vranken.

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17202
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/48a64566999f44290e4fb3b0d2e9a0e1c996902db51258e7aff00dda@%3Cdev.commons.apache.org%3E