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CVE-2015-1819

Public on 2015-08-14
Modified on 2019-05-30
Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the libxml2 library parsed certain XML files. An attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when parsed by an application using libxml2, could cause that application to use an excessive amount of memory.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 libxml2 2015-12-14 10:00 ALAS-2015-628
Amazon Linux 2 - Core libxml2 2019-05-29 19:14 ALAS2-2019-1220

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P