CVE-2015-5312: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

December 15, 2015 (updated March 8, 2019)

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5312

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