fkie_cve-2016-4449
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2016-06-09 16:59
Modified
2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
Summary
XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 15.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| xmlsoft | libxml2 | * |
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