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High ALAS2-2024-2707 1 CVE

Important: xstream security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Dec 5, 2024 · Updated Dec 19, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-47072: XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream. XStream provides a BinaryStreamDriver with an own optimized serialization format. The format uses ids for string values as deduplication. The mapping for these ids are created on-the-fly at marshalling time. At unmarshalling time the reader's implementation simply used a simple one-time recursion after reading a mapping token to process the next normal token of the data stream. However, an endless recursion could be triggered with manipulated input data resulting in a stack overflow causing a denial of service.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 xstream 0:1.3.1-16.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 xstream-javadoc 0:1.3.1-16.amzn2.0.4

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    XStream is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to stack overflow from a manipulated binary input stream

    XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to terminate the application with a stack overflow error resulting in a denial of service only by manipulating the processed input stream wh…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-47072.html