CVE-2017-16932 (GCVE-0-2017-16932)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-23 21:00 – Updated: 2026-01-22 18:00
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-04 13:30 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
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| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-… | |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017… | mailing-list |
| http://xmlsoft.org/news.html | |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/ | vendor-advisory |
| https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0… | |
| https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579 | |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860… | mailing-list |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294b… | mailing-list |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022… | mailing-list |
| https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/8… | |
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2017-11-23 00:00
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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