Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8241

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-12-15 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:13:32
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The xmlNextChar function in libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly check the state, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information via crafted XML data.