CVE-2014-3574 Information

Description

Apache POI before 3.10.1 and 3.11.x before 3.11-beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a crafted OOXML file aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Reference

http://poi.apache.org/changes.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1370.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1398.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1399.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1400.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59943 http://secunia.com/advisories/60419 http://secunia.com/advisories/61766 http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69648 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95768 https://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-and-490-installations