CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-3705

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-05-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/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
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References