cve-2016-4472
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-06-30 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:32
Severity ?
Summary
The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bdePatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bdePatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20Third Party Advisory
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