Out-of-bounds write in jackson-dataformats-text - CVE-2023-3894

 

Out-of-bounds write in jackson-dataformats-text - CVE-2023-3894

Published: January 12, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU85324
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3894
CWE-ID: CWE-787
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability occurs when parser is running on user supplied input. A remote attacker can supply content that causes the parser to crash by StackOverflow causing a denial of service.


Affected software

jackson-dataformats-text
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
IBM Cloud Pak System
Content Manager Enterprise Edition

How to mitigate CVE-2023-3894

Install updates from vendor's website.

jackson-dataformats-text - update to 2.15.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management - update to 2.3.8
IBM Cloud Pak System - update to 2.3.3.7 iFix 01
Content Manager Enterprise Edition - update to 8.7.0.2

External References

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