Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:7250Denial-of-Service (DoS)
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
libxml2.so is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow. The xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service condition when an encoding conversion failure occurs which causes the parser to extract more errors during the failure.
References
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.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/79548
www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1
xmlsoft.org/news.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2549
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2550
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1089
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7498
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281879
git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=afd27c21f6b36e22682b7da20d726bce2dcb2f43
github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/afd27c21f6b36e22682b7da20d726bce2dcb2f43
h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
Related
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P