CVE-2015-7941 (GCVE-0-2015-7941)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-18 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
22 references
Date Public
2015-10-22 00:00
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