CVE - CVE-2015-8242

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-8242	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The xmlSAX2TextNode function in SAX2.c in the push interface in the HTML parser in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information via crafted XML data.
References
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APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-1 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-2 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-3 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-5 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html BID:77681 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77681 CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html CONFIRM:http://xmlsoft.org/news.html CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756372 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281950 CONFIRM:https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=8fb4a770075628d6441fb17a1e435100e2f3b1a2 CONFIRM:https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206166 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206167 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206168 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206169 GENTOO:GLSA-201701-37 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37 HP:HPSBGN03537 URL:http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2 MLIST:[oss-security] 20151118 Buffer overflow in libxml2 URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/5 MLIST:[oss-security] 20151118 Re: Buffer overflow in libxml2 URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/18/23 REDHAT:RHSA-2015:2549 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html REDHAT:RHSA-2015:2550 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html REDHAT:RHSA-2016:1089 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html SECTRACK:1034243 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:2372 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2016:0106 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html UBUNTU:USN-2834-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1
Assigning CNA
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Date Record Created
20151118	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20151118)
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