CVE-2016-4472

high Trellix
CVSS v3 Base Score
8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
2.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 15% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: June 30, 2016 (3605 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Trellix
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

libexpat project libexpatcanonical ubuntu linuxmcafee policy auditorpython python

References

🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.ubuntu.com 🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 kc.mcafee.com 🔗 security.gentoo.org