Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting xerces-c-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.75% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-XERCESCDEVEL-1351561
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed29 Jun 2016

Introduced: 29 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-4463  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 xerces-c-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xerces-c-devel package and not the xerces-c-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Stack-based buffer overflow in Apache Xerces-C++ before 3.1.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a deeply nested DTD.