Cent OS: CVE-2015-5312: CESA-2015:2549 (libxml2)
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
12/15/2015
07/25/2018
12/01/2016
07/04/2017
Description
The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-libxml2
- centos-upgrade-libxml2-devel
- centos-upgrade-libxml2-python
- centos-upgrade-libxml2-static
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