Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xmlrpc-c (opens in a new tab)
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- published17 Jan 2026
- disclosed16 Jun 2016
Introduced: 16 Jun 2016
CVE-2016-5300 (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 xmlrpc-c package and not the xmlrpc-c package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5300
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5300
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3597
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5300
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/04/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/04/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91159
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3010-1
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E