Bug 1394156 (CVE-2016-6809) - CVE-2016-6809 tika: Native deserialization of Java objects in matlab files
Summary: CVE-2016-6809 tika: Native deserialization of Java objects in matlab files
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-6809
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1394157
Blocks: 1394158
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Reported: 2016-11-11 08:52 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:59 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: tika 1.14
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Last Closed: 2017-08-31 08:25:12 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-11 08:52:22 UTC 
Apache Tika wraps the jmatio parser (https://github.com/gradusnikov/jmatio) to handle MATLAB files.  The parser uses native deserialization on serialized Java objects embedded in MATLAB files. A malicious user could inject arbitrary code into a MATLAB file that would be executed when the object is deserialized.

Versions Affected: 1.6-1.13 

Mitigation: Turn off MATLAB file parsing or upgrade to Tika 1.14

Public via:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Nov/40

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/8a68b5d474205cc9
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-11-11 08:52:37 UTC 
Created tika tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1394157]
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