CVE-2013-2155

Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 does not properly validate length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or bypass the CVE-2009-0217 protection mechanism and spoof a signature via crafted length values to the (1) compareBase64StringToRaw, (2) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault, or (3) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault::verify functions.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.8 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-08-20

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Xml Security For C++ (Apache)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2013-06/0142.html
• http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2155.txt
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/santuario/xml-security-cpp/trunk/xsec/dsig/DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault.cpp?r1=1125752&r2=1…
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2710
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/680e6938b6412e26d5446054fd31de2011d33af11786b989127d1cc3%40%3Ccommits.santuario.ap…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1c07a561426ec5579073046ad7f4207cdcef452bb3100abaf908e0cd%40%3Ccommits.santuario.a…
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2018-15