CVE-2016-9597

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled RecursionCWE-119 — Buffer Overflow6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.66%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
RED HAT Libxml2Canonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Debian Linux+4 more
Timeline
PublishedJul 30
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5red_hat/libxml2all
▶NVDxmlsoft/libxml22.9.3
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-94gc-v83r-7m7w: 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↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2016-9597: 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↗2018-07-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
libxml2: stack overflow before detecting invalid XML file (unfixed CVE-2016-3705 in JBCS)↗2016-05-03
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Debian
CVE-2016-9597: libxml2 - It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-201...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-9597 libxml2: stack overflow before detecting invalid XML file (unfixed CVE-2016-3705 in JBCS)↗2016-12-22
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CVE-2016-9597 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | It was found that Red Hat JBoss Cor | cvebase.io