Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting jbcs-httpd24-httpd package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.1% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-JBCSHTTPD24HTTPD-16721101
  • published17 May 2026
  • disclosed3 May 2016

Introduced: 3 May 2016

CVE-2016-3705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 jbcs-httpd24-httpd.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jbcs-httpd24-httpd package and not the jbcs-httpd24-httpd package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1