[PDFBOX-647] Invalid dictionary causes infinate loop

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Parsing
• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: David Horwitz
• Created: 04/Mar/10 09:23
• Updated: 11/Jul/10 14:46
• Resolved: 09/Apr/10 10:08

Description

Parsing a pdf document seemed to cause pdfbox to go into an infinate loop logging the following:

2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser - Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser - Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser - Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser - Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''
2010-03-03 23:25:33,923 WARN Timer-2 org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser - Invalid dictionary, found:� but expected:''

This caused the app servers log to fill up all available space ....