CVE-2017-16931
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 1.4%libxml2 - security update
Published: 11/23/2017Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-16931DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16931
Description
parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a '%' character in a DTD name.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.5-r0
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.4+dfsg1-3.1
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy11
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |