cve-2015-8806
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-13 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:29
Severity ?
Summary
dict.c in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via an unexpected character immediately after the "<!DOCTYPE html" substring in a crafted HTML document.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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