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FKIE_CVE-2016-4483

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-04-11 16:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:47

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8	Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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cve@mitre.org	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd	Patch, Third Party Advisory
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cve@mitre.org	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8	Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd	Patch, Third Party Advisory
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
xmlsoft	libxml2	*
debian	debian_linux	8.0
oracle	solaris	11.3

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CVE-2016-4483 (GCVE-0-2016-4483)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-11 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:32

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

14 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294b…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2016-05-03 00:00

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