SB2016123101 - Denial of service in Apache Wicket
Published: December 31, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016123101
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Deserialization of untrusted data (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6793)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to a deserialization error in the DiskFileItem class. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data, trigger infinite loop if the client attempts to write on the DeferredFileOutputStream attribute and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.