CVE-2015-8317: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

December 15, 2015 (updated September 14, 2017)

The xmlParseXMLDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via an (1) unterminated encoding value or (2) incomplete XML declaration in XML data, which triggers an out-of-bounds heap read.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8317

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