Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting olcne-agent package, versions <0:1.2.3-9.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE7-OLCNEAGENT-2597611
  • published 10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 11 Mar 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 olcne-agent to version 0:1.2.3-9.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2021-9268.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream olcne-agent package and not the olcne-agent package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader (for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode, DecodeElement, or Skip method.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

7.5 high
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Red Hat

7.5 high