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CVE-2016-3705
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-05-17T14:08:04.593 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:46:13.220

Summary

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

Affected products

canonical — ubuntu_linux

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References

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