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CentOS Linux: CVE-2021-21345: Important: xstream security update (CESA-2021:1354)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2021
Added
Jun 1, 2021
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

XStream is a Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In XStream before version 1.4.16, there is a vulnerability which may allow a remote attacker who has sufficient rights to execute commands of the host only by manipulating the processed input stream. No user is affected, who followed the recommendation to setup XStream's security framework with a whitelist limited to the minimal required types. If you rely on XStream's default blacklist of the Security Framework, you will have to use at least version 1.4.16.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-xstreamcentos-upgrade-xstream-javadoc
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