title: A carefully crafted TNEF file can cause an out of memory exception
description: A shortcoming in the HMEF package of poi-scratchpad (Apache POI) allows an attacker to cause an Out of Memory exception. This package is used to read TNEF files (Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server). If an application uses poi-scratchpad to parse TNEF files and the application allows untrusted users to supply them, then a carefully crafted file can cause an Out of Memory exception. This issue affects poi-scratchpad version 5.2.0 and prior versions. Users are recommended to upgrade to poi-scratchpad 5.2.1.
problem types: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
affected:
{
vendor: Apache Software Foundation
product: poi-scratchpad
versions:
version: unspecified, lessThanOrEqual: 5.2.0, status: affected, versionType: custom
}
metrics:
other: [
type: unknown
content: {'other': 'moderate'}
]