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CVE-2014-3574: XEE

First published: Mon Aug 18 2014(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/apache-poi-ooxml<3.10.1
3.10.1
redhat/apache-poi-ooxml<3.11
3.11
Apache POI<=3.10
Apache POI=0.1
Apache POI=0.2
Apache POI=0.3
Apache POI=0.4
Apache POI=0.5
Apache POI=0.6
Apache POI=0.7
Apache POI=0.10.0
Apache POI=0.11.0
Apache POI=0.12.0
Apache POI=0.13.0
Apache POI=0.14.0
Apache POI=1.0.0
Apache POI=1.0.1
Apache POI=1.0.2
Apache POI=1.1.0
Apache POI=1.2.0
Apache POI=1.5
Apache POI=1.5.1
Apache POI=1.7-dev
Apache POI=1.8-dev
Apache POI=1.10-dev
Apache POI=2.0
Apache POI=2.0-pre1
Apache POI=2.0-pre2
Apache POI=2.0-pre3
Apache POI=2.0-rc1
Apache POI=2.0-rc2
Apache POI=2.5
Apache POI=2.5.1
Apache POI=3.0
Apache POI=3.0-alpha1
Apache POI=3.0-alpha2
Apache POI=3.0-alpha3
Apache POI=3.0.1
Apache POI=3.0.2
Apache POI=3.0.2-beta1
Apache POI=3.0.2-beta2
Apache POI=3.1
Apache POI=3.1-beta1
Apache POI=3.1-beta2
Apache POI=3.2
Apache POI=3.5
Apache POI=3.5-beta1
Apache POI=3.5-beta2
Apache POI=3.5-beta3
Apache POI=3.5-beta4
Apache POI=3.5-beta5
Apache POI=3.5-beta6
Apache POI=3.6
Apache POI=3.7
Apache POI=3.7-beta1
Apache POI=3.7-beta2
Apache POI=3.7-beta3
Apache POI=3.8
Apache POI=3.8-beta1
Apache POI=3.8-beta2
Apache POI=3.8-beta3
Apache POI=3.8-beta4
Apache POI=3.8-beta5
Apache POI=3.9
Apache POI=3.10-beta1
Apache POI=3.10-beta2
Apache POI=3.11-beta1
maven/org.apache.poi:poi=3.11-beta1
3.11-beta2
maven/org.apache.poi:poi<3.10.1
3.10.1

Remedy

https://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-and-490-installations

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