https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2134292
Bug ID: 2134292 Summary: CVE-2022-40151 xstream: Xstream to serialise XML data was vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks Product: Security Response Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Component: vulnerability Keywords: Security Severity: medium Priority: medium Assignee: security-response-team@redhat.com Reporter: pdelbell@redhat.com CC: didiksupriadi41@gmail.com, fedoraproject.org@bluhm-de.com, java-sig-commits@lists.fedoraproject.org, lkundrak@v3.sk, mizdebsk@redhat.com Blocks: 2128414 Target Milestone: --- Classification: Other
Those using Xstream to seralize XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS). If the parser is running on user supplied input, an attacker may supply content that causes the parser to crash by stackoverflow. This effect may support a denial of service attack.
https://github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47367