CVE-2016-3705

high HPE
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
1.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 23% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: May 17, 2016 (3650 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: HPE
Source: NVD

Description

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

canonical ubuntu linuxxmlsoft libxml2debian debian linuxhp icewall federation agenthp icewall file manageropensuse leap

References

🔗 lists.opensuse.org 🔗 lists.opensuse.org 🔗 rhn.redhat.com 🔗 seclists.org 🔗 www.oracle.com