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Message-ID: <YtcERPgb/nPGxvHA@gentoo.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:21:40 -0500
From: John Helmert III <ajak@...too.org>
To: mjc@...che.org
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2022-34169: Apache Xalan Java XSLT library is
 vulnerable to an integer truncation issue when processing malicious XSLT
 stylesheets

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 05:37:46PM +0000, Mark J. Cox wrote:
> Description:
> 
> The Apache Xalan Java XSLT library is vulnerable to an integer truncation issue when processing malicious XSLT stylesheets. This can be used to corrupt Java class files generated by the internal XSLTC compiler and execute arbitrary Java bytecode.
> 
> The Apache Xalan Java project is dormant and in the process of being retired. No future releases of Apache Xalan Java to address this issue are expected.
> 
> Note: Java runtimes (such as OpenJDK) include repackaged copies of Xalan.
> 
> Credit:
> 
> Reported by Felix Wilhelm, Google Project Zero
> 
> References:
> 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/2qvl7r43wb4t8p9dd9om1bnkssk07sn8
> 

Hi, is there any available patch or bug report? The reference here
only seems to be a discussion of the retirement of xalan-j, rather
than the vulnerability.
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