CVE-2016-6809: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

April 6, 2017 (updated October 15, 2019)

Apache Tika allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes JMatIO to do native deserialization.

References

seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Nov/40
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94247
dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tika/CHANGES-1.14.txt
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6809

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