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CVE-2016-4463

Public on 2016-07-08
Modified on 2018-12-08
Description

A stack exhaustion flaw was found in the way Xerces-C XML parser handled deeply nested DTDs. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using Xerces-C by tricking it into processing specially crafted data.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core xerces-c 2018-12-06 20:30 ALAS2-2018-1124

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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

References

Red Hat: CVE-2016-4463 Mitre: CVE-2016-4463 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity