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F5 Networks: K24322529 (CVE-2016-4449): libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-4447 and CVE-2016-4449

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F5 Networks: K24322529 (CVE-2016-4449): libxml2 vulnerabilities CVE-2016-4447 and CVE-2016-4449

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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