CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4483
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-11
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
Description
The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.
Affected configurations
• xmlsoft libxml2 (< 2.9.4)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• oracle solaris 11.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18 Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18 Third Party Advisory