CVE-2015-7941: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

November 18, 2015 (updated September 14, 2017)

libxml2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7941

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