CVE-2016-9597

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Red Hat
Status
Libxml2
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 July 2018

Summary

It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.

Affected Version(s)

libxml2 all

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98567
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9597
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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