ghsa-w76w-8f65-r427
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 01:23
Modified
2022-05-14 01:23
Details

The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2015-7942"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2015-11-18T16:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-w76w-8f65-r427",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T01:23:19Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T01:23:19Z",
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