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CVE-2016-5300

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS Gepubliceerd: CWE-399

Beschrijving

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.

Vendors

Canonical Debian Libexpat Project Google

Affected products

Ubuntu Linux Debian Linux Libexpat Android

References