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Red Hat JBossEAP: Insufficient Entropy (CVE-2016-5300)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Insufficient Entropy (CVE-2016-5300)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
06/04/2016
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/19/2024

Description

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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