CVE-2016-4483: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

April 11, 2017 (updated June 29, 2021)

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4483

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