CVE-2015-7941
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
9.1 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
59.0%
libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.
Affected configurations
References
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177341.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177381.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html
marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/5
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/8
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/74241
www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2812-1
xmlsoft.org/news.html
bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744980
git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=9b8512337d14c8ddf662fcb98b0135f225a1c489
git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a7dfab7411cbf545f359dd3157e5df1eb0e7ce31
h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
Related
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
9.1 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
59.0%