Out-of-Bounds Affecting libxml2 package, versions <0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.3.2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.8% (89th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-LIBXML2-1670815
- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 15 Dec 2015
Introduced: 15 Dec 2015
CVE-2015-7497 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
libxml2
to version 0:2.9.1-6.amzn2.3.2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1220
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2
package and not the libxml2
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
relevant fixed versions and status.
Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlDictComputeFastQKey function in dict.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79508
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281862
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=6360a31a84efe69d155ed96306b9a931a40beab9
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7497
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2549
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2550
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1089
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7497