SB2019101556 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Enterprise Repository
Published: October 15, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019101556
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12626)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to infinite loops while parsing specially crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros and out of Memory exceptions while parsing specially crafted DOC, PPT and XLS. A remote attacker can cause the service to crash.
2) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-0188)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XXE attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of a third-party JSON-lib library vulnerable to XML external entity injection attacks. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and read contents of arbitrary file on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.