Resource Management Errors Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.3+dfsg1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.61% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBXML2-1551304
  • published15 Dec 2015
  • disclosed15 Dec 2015

Introduced: 15 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-5312  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 libxml2 to version 2.9.3+dfsg1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

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