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HistoryOct 23, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2015-7942

2015-10-2300:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.006 Low

EPSS

Percentile

78.6%

The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not
properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input,
which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service
(out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different
vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941.

Bugs

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarchlibxml2< 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.12UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchlibxml2< 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.5UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.04noarchlibxml2< 2.9.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.10noarchlibxml2< 2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.006 Low

EPSS

Percentile

78.6%