CVE-2016-4449: Improper Input Validation

June 9, 2016 (updated January 18, 2018)

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4449

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