CVE-2015-8710

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the htmlParseComment function in HTMLparser.c of the libxml2 library, caused by a buffer overflow. This can be exploited by a remote attacker using an unclosed HTML comment to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service (application crash due to out-of-bounds heap memory access), or have other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.