CVE-2016-3705
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.88%Published: 5/17/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3705
Description
The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |