Bug 1581725 (CVE-2018-8013)

Summary: CVE-2018-8013 batik: information disclosure when deserializing
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akurtako, c.david86, hghasemb, hhorak, java-maint, java-sig-commits, jorton, jvanek, mizdebsk, msimacek
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: batik 1.10 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1581726, 1581727, 1583048    
Bug Blocks: 1581731    

Description Laura Pardo 2018-05-23 13:47:41 UTC
A flaw was found in Apache Batik versions 1.0 through 1.9.1. An information disclosure when deserializing a subclass of `AbstractDocument`, the class takes a string from the inputStream as the class name which then use it to call the no-arg constructor of the class.


References:
https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/security.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/135

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-05-23 13:48:18 UTC
Created batik tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1581726]

Comment 5 Chess Hazlett 2018-05-30 21:27:24 UTC
External References:

https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/security.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q2/135