CVE-2016-5300: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 16, 2016 (updated January 23, 2019)

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/91159
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5300

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