vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-40152: Security patch for woodstox-core (ALAS-2024-2463)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 16, 2022
Added
Feb 21, 2024
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

Those using Woodstox to parse XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS) if DTD support is enabled. 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.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-woodstox-coreamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-woodstox-core-javadoc
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