vulnerability

F5 Networks: K54225343 (CVE-2016-3705): libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-3627 and CVE-2016-3705

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 17, 2016
Added
Feb 16, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2018

Description

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

Solution

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