CVE-2015-7941 (GCVE-0-2015-7941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-18 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:06
VLAI
Summary
libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.
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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This issue only affected\\nUbuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04.\"}}"
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