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CVE-2015-7497 (GCVE-0-2015-7497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-15 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:51
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlDictComputeFastQKey function in dict.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2015-11-20 00:00
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