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CVE-2016-6809 – Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Tika’s MATLAB Parser

From: <tallison () apache org>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:15:14 +0000 (UTC)

CVE-2016-6809 – Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Tika’s MATLAB Parser 

Severity: Important 

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation 

Versions Affected: 1.6-1.13 

Description: Apache Tika wraps the jmatio parser (https://github.com/gradusnikov/jmatio) to handle MATLAB files.  The 
parser uses native deserialization on serialized Java objects embedded in MATLAB files. A malicious user could inject 
arbitrary code into a MATLAB file that would be executed when the object is deserialized. 

Mitigation: Turn off MATLAB file parsing or upgrade to Tika 1.14. 

Credit: Pierre Ernst of salesforce.com discovered this issue and contributed to the fix.

Current thread:

CVE-2016-6809 – Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Tika’s MATLAB Parser tallison (Nov 10)