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David Avant commented on PDFBOX-5415:
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Do we foresee a fix on the PDFBox side any time in the near future? If not,
then perhaps we should hide the PDF which causes the problem. Otherwise
malicious people might find it and use it as a weapon.
> Infinite loop in ExtractText in 2.x branch on a specific pdf
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> Key: PDFBOX-5415
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5415
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Parsing
> Affects Versions: 2.0.26
> Reporter: Tim Allison
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: PDFBOX-5415-TIKA-3718-p10.pdf
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> [~DavidAvant] reported an infinite loop in Tika and provided an example file.
> I can reproduce this with the latest PDFBox app 2.0.26-SNAPSHOT's
> ExtractText.
> File: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/13042292/map.pdf
> Adobe and a slightly out of date pdftotext also have problems with this file.
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