CVE-2016-4472

MEDIUM

Description

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21

https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bde

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-06-30

Updated: 2017-11-03

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.8

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

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 8.1

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 2.2

Severity: HIGH