CVE-2016-0718

critical Trellix
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
2.8%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 14% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: May 26, 2016 (3641 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Trellix
Source: NVD

Description

Expat allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed input document, which triggers a buffer overflow.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

mozilla firefoxapple mac os xsuse linux enterprise debuginfosuse studio onsitesuse linux enterprise serversuse linux enterprise software development kitopensuse leapsuse linux enterprise desktopcanonical ubuntu linuxlibexpat project libexpat

References

🔗 lists.apple.com 🔗 lists.opensuse.org 🔗 lists.opensuse.org 🔗 lists.opensuse.org 🔗 lists.opensuse.org