CVE-2016-3627 (GCVE-0-2016-3627)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-17 14:00 – Updated: 2025-12-04 17:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The xmlStringGetNodeList function in tree.c in libxml2 2.9.3 and earlier, when used in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, stack consumption, and application crash) via a crafted XML document.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-04 15:39 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
18 references
Date Public
2016-03-21 00:00
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"name": "USN-2994-1",
"refsource": "UBUNTU",
"url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2994-1"
},
{
"name": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html",
"refsource": "CONFIRM",
"url": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html"
},
{
"name": "84992",
"refsource": "BID",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84992"
},
{
"name": "https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18",
"refsource": "CONFIRM",
"url": "https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18"
},
{
"name": "RHSA-2016:2957",
"refsource": "REDHAT",
"url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html"
},
{
"name": "GLSA-201701-37",
"refsource": "GENTOO",
"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37"
},
{
"name": "[oss-security] 20160321 Re: CVE request: Stack exhaustion in libxml2 parsing xml files in recover mode",
"refsource": "MLIST",
"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/21/3"
}
]
}
}
}
},
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"datePublished": "2016-05-17T14:00:00.000Z",
"dateReserved": "2016-03-21T00:00:00.000Z",
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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