CVE-2016-4483

HIGH

libxml2 < 2.9.4 - Denial of Service via Non-UTF-8 Attribute Serialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

References (14)

Core 14
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0617
EPSS Percentile 92.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-502
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
oracle/solaris 11.3
xmlsoft/libxml2 < 2.9.4
Published Apr 11, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026