CVE-2022-40151: Out-of-bounds Write

September 16, 2022 (updated September 20, 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=47367
github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40151

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