An issue was discovered in OSSEC 3.6.0. An uncontrolled...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 24, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 29, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Mar 5, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Jan 29, 2023
An issue was discovered in OSSEC 3.6.0. An uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in os_xml.c occurs when a large number of opening and closing XML tags is used. Because recursion is used in _ReadElem without restriction, an attacker can trigger a segmentation fault once unmapped memory is reached.
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