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Feast day July 18

D Devil's Ivy CVE-2017-9765
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Saint Devil's Ivy

Hagiography in preparation at the scriptorium.

Technical record

Disclosed on
July 18 2017
CVE
CVE-2017-9765

Integer overflow in the soap_get function in Genivia gSOAP 2.7.x and 2.8.x before 2.8.48, as used on Axis cameras and other devices, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) via a large XML document, aka Devil's Ivy. NOTE: the large document would be blocked by many common web-server configurations on general-purpose computers.

Sources: blog.senr.io · blog.senr.io · web.archive.org

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