CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8806
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• xmlsoft libxml2 (< 2.9.4)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82071 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2994-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749115 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82071 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2994-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749115 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593 Third Party Advisory