CVE-2016-3705
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 17, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 30, 2016
Description
The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- 20160503 CVE-2016-3627 CVE-2016-3705: libxml2: stack overflow in xml validator (parser)mailing-list
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05157239
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10170
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1446vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1298vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:1292vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- DSA-3593vendor-advisory
- USN-2994-1vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765207
- 89854vdb-entry
- RHSA-2016:2957vendor-advisory
- GLSA-201701-37vendor-advisory
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