vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2016-4463: Security patch for xerces-c (ALAS-2018-1124)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 8, 2016
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Apache Xerces-C++ before 3.1.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via a deeply nested DTD.

Solutions

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Title
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