cve-2017-16932
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 20:43
Severity ?
Summary
parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://xmlsoft.org/news.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579Permissions Required
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
Impacted products
n/an/a
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