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FreeBSD: expat2 -- denial of service (CVE-2016-4472)

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FreeBSD: expat2 -- denial of service (CVE-2016-4472)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/30/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/04/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-expat2

References

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