Out-of-Bounds Affecting xerces-c package, versions [,3.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.75% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-XERCESC-2384847
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Jul 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-4463  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade xerces-c to version 3.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Stack-based buffer overflow in Apache Xerces-C++ before 3.1.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a deeply nested DTD.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1