gsd-2015-7942
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:20
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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CVE-2015-7942


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