perl-SOAP-Lite: XML exponential entity expansion denial-of-service
Published Nov 22, 2016
7.5
HIGHCVSS 3.0
EPSS 1.55%
Description
In Soap Lite (aka the SOAP::Lite extension for Perl) 1.14 and earlier, an example attack consists of defining 10 or more XML entities, each defined as consisting of 10 of the previous entity, with the document consisting of a single instance of the largest entity, which expands to one billion copies of the first entity. The amount of computer memory used for handling an external SOAP call would likely exceed that available to the process parsing the XML.
Affected products
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
perl-SOAP-Lite
Will not fix
Red Hat Satellite 5
perl-SOAP-Lite
Will not fix
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | perl-SOAP-Lite | Will not fix | n/a |
| Red Hat Satellite 5 | perl-SOAP-Lite | Will not fix | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
References (6)
- http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20/Changes x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94487 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8978 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397731 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8978
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8978
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20/Changes | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94487 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8978 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397731 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8978 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8978 |
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