Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2 (opens in a new tab)
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- published17 May 2016
- disclosed17 May 2016
Introduced: 17 May 2016
CVE-2016-3705 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-3705
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765207
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10170
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3705
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05157239
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00055.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00127.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1292
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/May/10
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89854
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2994-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2957
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3705
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332443