vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2017-7957: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 29, 2017
Added
Aug 9, 2024
Modified
Aug 9, 2024

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

suse-upgrade-xstream
Title
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