CVE-2016-4472
HIGH8.1EPSS 2.3%Published: 6/30/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/expatfrom 0, < 2.1.1-r2
- Debian/expatfrom 0, < 2.1.1-2
- Debian/libxmltokfrom 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |