CVE-2015-7941
EPSS 0.43%Published: 11/18/2015Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.2+really2.9.1+dfsg1-0.1