Resource Management Errors Affecting libxml2 package, versions [,2.9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.31% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBXML2-3004028
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-8035  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libxml2 to version 2.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The xz_decomp function in xzlib.c in libxml2 2.9.1 does not properly detect compression errors, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang) via crafted XML data.

CVSS Base Scores

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