Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5312

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-12-15 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 06:41:09

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

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