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Medium · 4.3 Public exploit CVE-2023-46442 EUVD-2024-1645GHSA-hfg7-j82c-fr3w

Soot Infinite Loop vulnerability

Published May 24, 2024 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An infinite loop in the retrieveActiveBody function of Soot before v4.4.1 under Java 8 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

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GitHub 1 repository

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.soot-oss:soot < 4.4.1 4.4.1 GHSA-hfg7-j82c-fr3w

References