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SUSE: CVE-2016-3705: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 17, 2016
Added
May 31, 2016
Modified
Feb 4, 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

suse-upgrade-libxml2suse-upgrade-libxml2-2suse-upgrade-libxml2-2-32bitsuse-upgrade-libxml2-32bitsuse-upgrade-libxml2-develsuse-upgrade-libxml2-devel-32bitsuse-upgrade-libxml2-docsuse-upgrade-libxml2-pythonsuse-upgrade-libxml2-toolssuse-upgrade-libxml2-x86suse-upgrade-python-libxml2suse-upgrade-python2-libxml2-pythonsuse-upgrade-python3-libxml2-pythonsuse-upgrade-sles12-docker-imagesuse-upgrade-sles12sp1-docker-image

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