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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:31:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: Tim Allison <tallison@...che.org>
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Security <security@...che.org>,
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Subject: CVE-2017-12626 – Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Apache POI < 3.17
Title: CVE-2017-12626 – Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Apache POI < 3.17
Severity: Important
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions affected: versions prior to version 3.17
Description:
Apache POI versions prior to release 3.17 are vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks:
* Infinite Loops while parsing specially crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros
(POI bugs 61338 [0] and 61294 [1])
* Out of Memory Exceptions while parsing specially crafted DOC, PPT and XLS
(POI bugs 52372 [2] and 61295 [3])
Mitigation: Users with applications which accept content from external or untrusted sources are advised to upgrade to Apache POI 3.17 or newer.
-Tim Allison
on behalf of the Apache POI PMC
[0] https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61338
[1] https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61294
[2] https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52372
[3] https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61295
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