ubuntu · CVE-2017-7957

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-04-29 19:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:39:29 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7957 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libxstream-java), 8 status rows across 8 suites (artful, bionic, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 3, not-affected 2, released 2, needs-triage 1.

Description:

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.

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