CVE-2016-4472

HIGH8.1

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data

Published Jun 30, 2016

Modified 1 years ago

Details

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.

References

WEB

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528

ADVISORY

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1

WEB

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251

WEB

https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365

ADVISORY

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21

WEB