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CVE-2016-4483
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-04-11T16:59:00.220 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:47:38.503

Summary

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

Affected products

xmlsoft — libxml2

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References

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