CVE-2015-7941

2015-11-1816:59:04

CWE-119

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web.nvd.nist.gov

CVSS2

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

AI Score

9.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

58.9%

JSON

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 configurations

Nvd

Node

canonicalubuntu_linuxMatch12.04lts

canonicalubuntu_linuxMatch14.04lts

canonicalubuntu_linuxMatch15.04

Node

xmlsoftlibxml2Match2.9.2

VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linux12.04cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
canonicalubuntu_linux15.04cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xmlsoftlibxml22.9.2cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.04	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::lts:::
canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
canonical	ubuntu_linux	15.04	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:::::::*
xmlsoft	libxml2	2.9.2	cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.2:::::::*