PT-2015-3256

CVE-2015-7500

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Published

2015-11-20

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Updated

2026-03-13

Description by

CVSS 2.0
5.0
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 versions prior to 2.9.3
Description The issue is related to the xmlParseMisc function in parser.c, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds heap read. This is related to incorrect entities boundaries and start tags.
Recommendations For versions prior to 2.9.3, update to version 2.9.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the xmlParseMisc function until a patch is available.
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