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vulnerability bulletin CVE-2012-5161

Citrix XenApp: code execution via the XML Service Interface component

Synthesis of the vulnerability

An attacker can send a specially ill formed request to the XML Service Interface component of Citrix XenApp, in order to make it execute arbitrary machine code.
Impacted products: XenApp.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 13/12/2012.
Identifiers: BID-56907, CERTA-2012-AVI-733, CTX135066, CVE-2012-5161, VIGILANCE-VUL-12233.

Description of the vulnerability

An attacker can send a specially ill formed request to the XML Service Interface component of Citrix XenApp, in order to make it execute arbitrary machine code.

Technicals details are unknown.
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