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title: "CVE-2014-3574\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2014-3574

Publication date 4 September 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| libapache-poi-java | 19.04 disco | Not affected |
| 18.10 cosmic | Not affected |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not affected |
| 17.10 artful | Ignored end of life |
| 17.04 zesty | Ignored end of life |
| 16.10 yakkety | Ignored end of life |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 15.10 wily | Ignored end of life |
| 15.04 vivid | Ignored end of life |
| 14.10 utopic | Ignored end of life |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Ignored end of life |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3574)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3574)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2014-3574)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3574)

### Other references

* <https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54764>
* <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#18-august-2014-recommendation-to-update-apache-poi-in-apache-solr-480-481-and-490-installations>
* <http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt>
* <http://secunia.com/advisories/60419>
* <http://poi.apache.org/changes.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3574>
