SB2017101109 - Denial of service in IBM iNotes
Published: October 11, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017101109
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7957)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to XStream mishandles attempts to create an instance of the primitive type 'void' during unmarshalling when a certain denyTypes workaround is not used. A remote attacker can perform demonstrated by an xstream.fromXML("<void/>") call, trigger an unmarshalling error in XStream and cause the target service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.