SB20230820240 - Fedora EPEL 8 update for xstream
Published: August 20, 2023
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43859)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40151)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input in the Woodstox XML parser. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted input to the parser, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
3) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40151)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error if the parser is running on user supplied input. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML input to the application and perform a denial of service attack.
4) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-41966)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a stack overflow error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.