[PDFBOX-4330] NumberFormatException in CFFParser.readRealNumber()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.15, 2.0.11
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.17, 2.0.13, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: FontBox
• Labels: CFF
• External issue URL: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37292
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 03/Oct/18 10:16
• Updated: 02/Dec/18 17:06
• Resolved: 03/Oct/18 12:41

Description

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "-1.5258789E-E-55"
        at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:2043)
        at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.parseDouble(FloatingDecimal.java:110)
        at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:538)
        at java.lang.Double.valueOf(Double.java:502)
        at org.apache.fontbox.cff.CFFParser.readRealNumber(CFFParser.java:405)
        at org.apache.fontbox.cff.CFFParser.readEntry(CFFParser.java:281)
        at org.apache.fontbox.cff.CFFParser.readDictData(CFFParser.java:258)
        at org.apache.fontbox.cff.CFFParser.parseType1Dicts(CFFParser.java:736)
        at org.apache.fontbox.cff.CFFParser.parseFont(CFFParser.java:569)
        at org.apache.fontbox.cff.CFFParser.parse(CFFParser.java:125)
        at org.apache.fontbox.cff.CFFParser.parse(CFFParser.java:76)

This happens on pages 2 and 3. The cause is an invalid sequence that has "E-" twice. We just skip one of the E's and it works.