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CVE-2015-7498

critical

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure.

References

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281879

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=afd27c21f6b36e22682b7da20d726bce2dcb2f43

http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79548

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-12-15

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02562