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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Link Resource
https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/1953 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-03-05T17:46:34

Updated: 2021-03-05T17:46:34

Reserved: 2021-03-05T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-28040

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-03-05T18:15:13.270

Modified: 2021-03-09T15:41:19.717


Link: CVE-2021-28040

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