CVE-2015-7941

Description

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a7dfab7411cbf545f359dd3157e5df1eb0e7ce31

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=9b8512337d14c8ddf662fcb98b0135f225a1c489

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744980

http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2812-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74241

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/8

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/5

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177381.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177341.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3