CVE-2017-12626 Vulnerability in maven package org.apache.poi:poi

Description

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.17 are vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks: 1) Infinite Loops while parsing crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros (POI bugs 61338 and 61294), and 2) Out of Memory Exceptions while parsing crafted DOC, PPT and XLS (POI bugs 52372 and 61295).

Remediation

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102879

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1322

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/453d9af5dbabaccd9afb58d27279a9dbfe8e35f4e5ea1645ddd6960b%40%3Cdev.poi.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-835 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H