Advisories » MGASA-2014-0550

Updated apache-poi packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 26 Dec 2014
Modification date: 26 Dec 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-3529 , CVE-2014-3574

Description

Updated apache-poi packages fix security vulnerabilities:

It was found that Apache POI would resolve entities in OOXML documents. A
remote attacker able to supply OOXML documents that are parsed by Apache POI
could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the
application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks
(CVE-2014-3529).

It was found that Apache POI would expand an unlimited number of entities in
OOXML documents. A remote attacker able to supply OOXML documents that are
parsed by Apache POI could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service
attack via excessive CPU and memory consumption (CVE-2014-3574).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14128
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/137802.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3529
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3574

SRPMS

4/core

• apache-poi-3.10.1-1.mga4