CVE-2015-7942

medium HPE
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
1.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 19% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: November 18, 2015 (3831 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: HPE
Source: NVD

Description

The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

hp icewall federation agenthp icewall file managerdebian debian linuxapple iphone osapple mac os xapple tvosapple watchoscanonical ubuntu linuxxmlsoft libxml2

References

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