CVE-2015-7498

CWE-119 — Buffer OverflowCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer OverflowCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption11 documents8 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUM
EPSS
3.3%
top 12.85%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
9
Xmlsoft Libxml2Canonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Debian Linux+6 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 15
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages9 packages

▶Debianlibxml2< 2.9.3+dfsg1-1+3
▶Ubuntulibxml2< 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
▶NVDxmlsoft/libxml22.9.2

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-h3v6-m99p-pjm8: Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2015-7498: Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser↗2015-12-15
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OSV
CVE-2015-7498: Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser↗2015-12-15
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OSV
libxml2 vulnerabilities↗2015-12-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Red Hat
openstack-nova: May fail to delete images in resize state regression↗2016-09-21
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Ubuntu
libxml2 vulnerabilities↗2015-12-14
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Red Hat
libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlParseXmlDecl↗2015-12-01
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Debian
CVE-2015-7498: libxml2 - Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml...↗2015
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-7498 openstack-nova: May fail to delete images in resize state regression↗2016-09-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7498 libxml2: Heap-based buffer overflow in xmlParseXmlDecl↗2015-11-13
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CVE-2015-7498 (MEDIUM CVSS 5) | Heap-based buffer overflow in the x | cvebase.io