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CVE-2016-4472

HIGH · 8.1 CVSS Gepubliceerd: CWE-119

Beschrijving

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.

Vendors

Libexpat Project Canonical Mcafee Python

Affected products

Libexpat Ubuntu Linux Policy Auditor Python

References