CVE-2013-2156

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Exclusive Canonicalization functionality (xsec/canon/XSECC14n20010315.cpp) in Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PrefixList attribute.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-08-20

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Xml Security For C++ (Apache)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2013-06/0143.html
• http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2156.txt
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1493961
• 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