CVE-2015-7499: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

December 15, 2015 (updated March 19, 2019)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via unspecified vectors.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7499

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