[FLUME-3125] Upgrade fontbox library dependency

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.1
• Labels: dependency
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Attila Simon
• Created: 19/Jul/17 13:39
• Updated: 12/Sep/17 13:19

Description

Group	Artifact	Version used	Upgrade target
org.apache.pdfbox	fontbox	1.8.4	2.0.6

Security vulnerability: http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-2175/
Maven repository: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.pdfbox/fontbox

Please do:

• CVE might be a false alarm or mistake. Please double check.
• double check the newest version.
• consider to remove a dependency if better alternative is available.
• check whether the lib change would introduce a backward incompatibility (in which case please add this label `breaking_change` and fix version should be the next major)

Excerpt from mvn dependency:tree

org.apache.flume.flume-ng-sinks:flume-ng-morphline-solr-sink:jar:1.8.0-SNAPSHOT
+- org.kitesdk:kite-morphlines-all:pom:1.0.0:compile
|  +- org.kitesdk:kite-morphlines-solr-cell:jar:1.0.0:compile
|  |  +- org.apache.tika:tika-xmp:jar:1.5:compile
|  |  |  +- org.apache.tika:tika-parsers:jar:1.5:compile
|  |  |  |  +- org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:jar:1.8.4:compile
|  |  |  |  |  +- org.apache.pdfbox:fontbox:jar:1.8.4:compile

Issue Links

• Is contained by: FLUME-3150 Upgrade Kite version