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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EUVD-2021-14747 | 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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References
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| https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1953 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T21:33:17.414Z
Reserved: 2021-03-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-28040
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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-03-05T18:15:13.270
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:59:01.787
Link: CVE-2021-28040
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