vulnerability
Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-3705: Vulnerability in libxml2
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | May 17, 2016 | May 29, 2017 | Feb 1, 2022 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 17, 2016
Added
May 29, 2017
Modified
Feb 1, 2022
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.
Solutions
oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-libxml2-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-libxslt-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-26-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-27-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-34-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxsl-26-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxsl-27-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
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