CVE-2015-7942
EPSS 1.0%libxml2 - security update
Published: 11/18/2015Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.3+dfsg1-1
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze13