CVE-2016-4483

MEDIUM

Description

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.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd

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

https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-04-11

Updated: 2020-09-11

Type: CWE-502

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH