CVE - CVE-2016-4449

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-4449	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.
References
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APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-1 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00000.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-2 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00001.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-3 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00002.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-4 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00003.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2016-07-18-6 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00005.html BID:90865 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90865 CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html CONFIRM:http://xmlsoft.org/news.html CONFIRM:https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=b1d34de46a11323fccffa9fadeb33be670d602f5 CONFIRM:https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05194709 CONFIRM:https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10170 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206899 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206901 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206902 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206903 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206904 CONFIRM:https://support.apple.com/HT206905 CONFIRM:https://support.cybozu.com/ja-jp/article/9735 CONFIRM:https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18 DEBIAN:DSA-3593 URL:https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593 JVN:JVN#17535578 URL:http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN17535578/index.html JVNDB:JVNDB-2017-000066 URL:http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2017/JVNDB-2017-000066.html MLIST:[oss-security] 20160525 3 libxml2 issues URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/2 REDHAT:RHSA-2016:1292 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1292 REDHAT:RHSA-2016:2957 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html SECTRACK:1036348 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348 SLACKWARE:SSA:2016-148-01 URL:http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.404722 UBUNTU:USN-2994-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2994-1
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Entry Created
20160502	Disclaimer: The entry 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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