Bug 1593627 (CVE-2018-10864)

Summary:	CVE-2018-10864 redhat-certification: resource consumption in DocumentBase:loadFiltered
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Riccardo Schirone <rschiron>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abehl, brose, gnichols
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Doc Text:	An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw has been discovered in redhat-certification in the way documents are loaded. A remote attacker may provide an existing but invalid XML file which would be opened and never closed, possibly producing a Denial of Service.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1609290
Bug Blocks:	1593614

Description Riccardo Schirone 2018-06-21 09:22:30 UTC

An uncontrolled resource consumption flaw has been discovered in redhat-certification in the way documents are loaded in DocumentBase:loadFiltered in the documentbase.py file. A remote attacker may provide an existing but invalid XML file which would be opened and never closed, possibly producing a Denial of Service.

Comment 1 Riccardo Schirone 2018-06-21 09:22:38 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Riccardo Schirone (Red Hat Product Security)

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-08-09 17:22:53 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:2373 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2373