Missing incrementation of recursion depth counter were found in the xmlParserEntityCheck() and xmlParseAttValueComplex() functions used for parsing XML data. An attacker could launch a Denial of Service attack by passing specially crafted XML data to an application, forcing it to crash due to stack exhaustion.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | libxml2 | 2016-07-14 16:30 | ALAS-2016-719 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |