The vulnerability of the libxml2 library allows a attacker to trigger a service failure or read arbitrary files.

The vulnerability of the xmlSAX2ResolveEntity and xmlSetExternalEntityLoader functions in the libxml2 library is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service failures or read arbitrary files using a specially crafted XML...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: xerces-c-3.1.4-1.fc24

Xerces-C is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. Xerces-C makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. Xerces-C is faithful to the XML 1.0...

Vulnerabilities of iOS and Mac OS X operating systems, allowing attackers to trigger service interruptions or execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the libxml2 library in iOS and Mac OS X operating systems arises due to buffer overflows. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code remotely or cause a service failure memory corruption using a specially crafted XML document...

CVE-2016-5300

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1839

The xmlDictAddString function in libxml2 before 2.9.4, as used in Apple iOS before 9.3.2, OS X before 10.11.5, tvOS before 9.2.1, and watchOS before 2.2.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted XML document...

Design/Logic Flaw

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the 1 htmlPArsePubidLiteral and 2 htmlParseSystemiteral functions in libxml2 before 2.9.4, as used in Apple iOS before 9.3.2, OS X before 10.11.5, tvOS before 9.2.1, and watchOS before 2.2.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a...

jakarta-taglibs-standard: XXE and RCE via XSL extension in JSTL XML tags

It was found that the Java Standard Tag Library JSTL allowed the processing of untrusted XML documents to utilize external entity references, which could access resources on the host system and, potentially, allowing arbitrary code execution...

jdk7-openjdk: multiple issues

CVE-2015-4734 information disclosure It was discovered that the JGSS component of OpenJDK did not properly hide Kerberos realm information from all error exceptions when running under Security Manager. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to obtain certain information about...

Apple iOS libxml2 User Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. A security vulnerability in Apple iOS libxml2 processing of XML documents allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to obtain sensitive user information...

Possible Denial of Service attack in Active Support

Specially crafted XML documents can cause applications to raise a SystemStackError and potentially cause a denial of service attack. This only impacts applications using REXML or JDOM as their XML processor. Other XML processors that Rails supports are not impacted. All users running an affected...

Microsoft .NET Framework Denial of Service (MS15-048: CVE-2015-1672)

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in the Microsoft .Net Framework. The vulnerability is due to an error in the way that Microsoft .Net Framework handles XML documents with an invalid EncryptedData element. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially...

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) (MS15-039: CVE-2015-1646)

A security feature bypass vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft XML Core Services MSXML. The vulnerability is due to a flaw that allows external entities in XML documents to be expanded into different-origin web site contents or local file contents. A remote attacker can exploit this issue...

Debian DLA-88-1 : ruby1.8 security update

This update fixes multiple local and remote denial of service and remote code execute problems : CVE-2011-0188 Properly allocate memory, to prevent arbitrary code execution or application crash. Reported by Drew Yao. CVE-2011-2686 Reinitialize the random seed when forking to prevent CVE-2003-0900...

USN-2366-1: libvirt vulnerabilities

Daniel P. Berrange and Richard Jones discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled XML documents containing XML external entity declarations. An attacker could use this issue to cause libvirtd to crash, resulting in a denial of service on all affected releases, or possibly read arbitrary files if...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5266

The Incutio XML-RPC IXR Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, does not limit the number of elements in an XML document, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a large document, a different vulnerability...

openSUSE Security Update : castor (openSUSE-SU-2014:0822-1)

castor was updated to prevent XXE attacks via crafted XML documents CVE-2014-3004. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2014-435. The text description of this plugin is C...

MGASA-2014-0263 Updated qt3 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated qt3 packages fix security vulnerabilities: QXmlSimpleReader in Qt versions prior to 5.2 supports expansion of internal entities in XML documents without placing restrictions to ensure the document does not cause excessive memory usage. If an application using this API processes untrusted...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : libvirt (SAT Patch Number 9203)

libvirt has been patched to fix two security issues. Further information is available at http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-0179 and http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-6456 These security issues have been fixed : - Unsafe parsing of XML documents allows...

Red Hat JBoss Seam Framework XXE Information Disclosure (CVE-2013-6447)

An information disclosure vulnerability has been reported in Red Hat JBoss Seam Framework. The vulnerability is due to an incorrectly configured XML parser accepting XML eXternal Entities XXE from untrusted sources being used by the ExecutionHandler, PollHandler, and SubscriptionHandler classes...

qt4-xml -- XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service

Richard J. Moore reports: QXmlSimpleReader in Qt versions prior to 5.2 supports expansion of internal entities in XML documents without placing restrictions to ensure the document does not cause excessive memory usage. If an application using this API processes untrusted data then the application...