Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxstream-java  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBXSTREAMJAVA-615414
  • published29 Apr 2017
  • disclosed29 Apr 2017

Introduced: 29 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7957  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxstream-java package and not the libxstream-java package as distributed by Ubuntu.

XStream through 1.4.9, when a certain denyTypes workaround is not used, mishandles attempts to create an instance of the primitive type 'void' during unmarshalling, leading to a remote application crash, as demonstrated by an xstream.fromXML("<void/>") call.