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CVE-2016-4449

CVSS v3.0 7.1 (High)
71% Progress
CVSS v2.0 5.8 (Medium)
58% Progress
EPSS 0.79 % (82th)
0.79% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 14
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XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Weaknesses
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2016-06-09 16:59:07
(8 years ago)
Updated Date
2018-01-18 18:18:06
(6 years ago)

Affected Products

Canonical

Debian

Xmlsoft

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  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 15.10 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10
  Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Xmlsoft Libxml2 2.9.3 and prior versions cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2 <= 2.9.3