CVE-2016-4483

HIGH

Xmlsoft Libxml2 < 2.9.4 - Insecure Deserialization

Title source: rule

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)

[Third Party Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593

[Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0127

EPSS Percentile 79.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-502

Status draft

Affected Products (3)

xmlsoft/libxml2 < 2.9.4

debian/debian_linux

oracle/solaris

Timeline

Published Apr 11, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026