vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-16931: libxml2 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 23, 2017
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a '%' character in a DTD name.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libxml2
Title
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