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CVE-2015-7942 (GCVE-0-2015-7942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-18 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:06
VLAI
Summary
The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2015-10-22 00:00
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