CVE-2015-5312

CVE-2015-5312
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 4.50 % · percentile 92 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.1AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
affected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD