libxml2: heap-based buffer overflow in xmlParseConditionalSections()

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash causing a denial of service...

CVE-2015-7941

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...