USN-7529-1: Apache Tika vulnerabilities

Publication date

23 May 2025

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Apache Tika.


Packages

  • tika - A content analysis toolkit

Details

It was discovered that Apache Tika can have an excessive memory usage by
using a crafted or corrupt PSD file. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-1950, CVE-2020-1951)

It was discovered that Apache Tika incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2022-30126, CVE-2022-30973, CVE-2022-33879)

It was discovered that Apache Tika can have an excessive memory usage by
using a crafted or corrupt PSD file. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-1950, CVE-2020-1951)

It was discovered that Apache Tika incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2022-30126, CVE-2022-30973, CVE-2022-33879)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.04 jammy libtika-java –  1.22-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1  
20.04 focal libtika-java –  1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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