vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-7957: libxstream-java -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 1, 2017
Added
May 1, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

XStream through 1.4.9, when a certain denyTypes workaround is not used, mishandles attempts to create an instance of the primitive type 'void' during unmarshalling, leading to a remote application crash, as demonstrated by an xstream.fromXML("<void/>") call.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libxstream-java
Title
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