ghsa-v48g-p9p2-j8cr
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-17 01:06
Modified
2022-05-17 01:06
Details

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.

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{
   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2015-7941",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-119",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2015-11-18T16:59:00Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "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.",
   id: "GHSA-v48g-p9p2-j8cr",
   modified: "2022-05-17T01:06:30Z",
   published: "2022-05-17T01:06:30Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7941",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744980",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=9b8512337d14c8ddf662fcb98b0135f225a1c489",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a7dfab7411cbf545f359dd3157e5df1eb0e7ce31",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177341.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177381.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/5",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/8",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74241",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2812-1",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://xmlsoft.org/news.html",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [],
}


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