CVE-2015-5312

Description

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

Affected packages (3)

• Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.3+dfsg1-1
• Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze16
• RubyGems/nokogiri>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.7.1

References (23)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5312
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5312
• WEBhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
• WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html
• WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html
• WEBhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2
• WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html
• WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
• WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276693
• WEBhttps://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=69030714cde66d525a8884bda01b9e8f0abf8e1e
• WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2015-5312.yml
• WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/aSbgDiwb24s
• WEBhttps://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172
• WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
• WEBhttps://support.apple.com/HT206166
• WEBhttps://support.apple.com/HT206167
• WEBhttps://support.apple.com/HT206168
• WEBhttps://support.apple.com/HT206169
• WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430
• WEBhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
• WEBhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• WEBhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1
• WEBhttp://xmlsoft.org/news.html