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CVE-2016-3705

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS Gepubliceerd: CWE-20

Beschrijving

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

Vendors

Canonical Xmlsoft Debian Hp Opensuse

Affected products

Ubuntu Linux Libxml2 Debian Linux Icewall Federation Agent Icewall File Manager Leap

References