CVE-2015-5312 (GCVE-0-2015-5312)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-15 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
VLAI?
Summary
The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.
Severity ?
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CWE
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Assigner
References
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://support.apple.com/HT206167 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=6… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276693 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/publ… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
https://support.apple.com/HT206169 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://support.apple.com/HT206166 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79536 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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