CVE-2016-3705 (GCVE-0-2016-3705)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-17 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:03
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Summary
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.
Severity
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CWE
  • n/a
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2016-05-03 00:00
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