Memory corruption in Sametime - CVE-2016-0729

 

Memory corruption in Sametime - CVE-2016-0729

Published: August 28, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8015
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0729
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: IBM Corporation
Affected software:
Sametime

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the Apache Xerces-C XML Parser library due to improper bounds checking during processing and error reporting. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted input documents and cause the library to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-0729

Update to version 9.0.1 FP1.

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