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CVE-2015-7941
UNKNOWN · CVSS n/a
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2015-11-18T16:59:04.333 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:33:25.530

Summary

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.

Affected products

canonical — ubuntu_linux

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References

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