Bug 1593627 (CVE-2018-10864) - CVE-2018-10864 redhat-certification: resource consumption in DocumentBase:loadFiltered
Summary: CVE-2018-10864 redhat-certification: resource consumption in DocumentBase:loa...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-10864
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1609290
Blocks: 1593614
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-06-21 09:22 UTC by Riccardo Schirone
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:06 UTC (History)
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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.
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Last Closed: 2018-08-10 06:13:26 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2373 0 None None None 2018-08-09 17:22:57 UTC

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
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