CVE-2017-16931: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

November 23, 2017 (updated July 20, 2021)

parser.c in libxml2 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a ‘%’ character in a DTD name.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16931

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