An issue was discovered in OSSEC 3.6.0. An uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in os_xml.c occurs when a large number of opening and closing XML tags is used. Because recursion is used in _ReadElem without restriction, an attacker can trigger a segmentation fault once unmapped memory is reached.
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https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1953 |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2021-03-05T17:46:34
Updated: 2024-08-03T21:33:17.414Z
Reserved: 2021-03-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-28040
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2021-03-05T18:15:13.270
Modified: 2021-03-09T15:41:19.717
Link: CVE-2021-28040
Redhat
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