CVE-2016-9597: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

July 30, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/98567
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9597
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9597

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