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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-4483: Vulnerability in libxml2

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-4483: Vulnerability in libxml2

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/11/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
12/12/2019

Description

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-libxml2-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-libxslt-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-26-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-27-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-34-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxsl-26-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxsl-27-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0

Related Vulnerabilities

References

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-libxml2-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-libxslt-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-26-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-27-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxml2-34-2-9-4-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxsl-26-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-python-libxsl-27-1-1-28-0-175-3-11-0-4-0

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