Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published8 May 2025
- disclosed18 Nov 2015
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 18 Nov 2015
CVE-2015-7941 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.