Denial of Service Vulnerability in libxml2 2.9.2

CVE-2015-7941 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.

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