Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8242

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-12-15 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:13:31
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The xmlSAX2TextNode function in SAX2.c in the push interface in the HTML parser in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information via crafted XML data.