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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:7254
HistoryAug 08, 2018 - 2:02 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2018-08-0802:02:05
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
8

7.1 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

libxml2 is vulnerable to denial of service attacks due to improper prevention of entity expansion in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c. A context-dependent attacker is able to cause a denial of service by exhausting CPU using specially crafted XML data.

CPENameOperatorVersion
libxml2.sole2.9.5
libxml2.sole2.9.5

References

7.1 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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