CVE-2017-16932CWE-835

CVE-2017-16932

High · published November 24, 2017

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
6%
Percentile
93.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.06452 · 93.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2017-11-24T02:29Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
xmlsoft/libxml2≤ 2.9.4—
References (20)
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html · [email protected]https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html · [email protected]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579 · [email protected]https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961 · [email protected]https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961 · [email protected]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · [email protected]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · [email protected]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html · [email protected]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html · [email protected]https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/ · [email protected]http://xmlsoft.org/news.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 NOV 21:00Z
    parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities
    cvelistv5