Out-of-Bounds Affecting libxml2 package, versions [,2.9.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBXML2-3004042
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7941  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libxml2.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.

CVSS Scores

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