FKIE_CVE-2016-3705
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-17 14:08 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:46
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 15.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| xmlsoft | libxml2 | 2.9.3 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| hp | icewall_federation_agent | 3.0 | |
| hp | icewall_file_manager | 3.0 | |
| opensuse | leap | 42.1 |
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