CVE-2022-40152: Out-of-bounds Write

September 16, 2022 (updated February 9, 2023)

Those using Woodstox to parse XML data may be vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks (DOS) if DTD support is enabled. 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=47434
github.com/x-stream/xstream/issues/304
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40152

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