CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9596

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-08-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-08-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

libxml2, as used in Red Hat JBoss Core Services and when in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3627.

Affected configurations

• redhat jboss core services • xmlsoft libxml2 (< 2.9.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References