CVE-2022-40152: Out-of-bounds Write

September 17, 2022 (updated October 25, 2022)

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.

References

bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=47434
github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/issues/157
github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/issues/160
github.com/FasterXML/woodstox/pull/159
github.com/advisories/GHSA-3f7h-mf4q-vrm4
github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40152

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