CVE-2017-7957

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-7957
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-04-29 19:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-03-26 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionXStream 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Xstream Project Xstream All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Bulletin: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities affect IBM® Rational® Quality Manager CONFIRM www-prd-trops.events.ibm.com Permissions Required
XStream - CVE-2017-7957 CONFIRM x-stream.github.io Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
IBM Notes XStream Error Lets Remote Users Cause the Target Service to Crash - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3841-1 libxstream-java DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
IBM QRadar SIEM CVE-2017-7957 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 375827 XStream Arbitrary Code Execution And Multiple vulnerabilities
  • 730155 McAfee Web Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities(WP-3580, WP-3656, WP-3815, WP-3878, WP-3882, WP-3934,WP-3935, WP-3936, WP-3999)
  • 980760 Java (maven) Security Update for com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream (GHSA-7hwc-46rm-65jh)
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