Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package swish-e (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published17 Jan 2026
- disclosed30 Jun 2016
Introduced: 30 Jun 2016
CVE-2016-4472 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream swish-e package and not the swish-e package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4472
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4472
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4472
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21
- https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bde
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365