PT-2015-3363

CVE-2015-1819

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Published

2015-04-14

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Updated

2026-03-13

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CVSS 2.0
7.8
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue is related to insufficient restriction of XML links to external objects in the libxml2 library's XML file parser. This can be exploited by a remote attacker using a specially crafted XML document to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, through an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Related identifiers
GHSA-Q7WX-62R7-J2X7
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MGASA-2015-0358
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10192-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10549-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11340-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11912-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13165-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14174-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10356-1
RHSA-2015:1419
RHSA-2015_1419
RHSA-2015:2550
RHSA-2015_2550
SUSE-SU-2016:0030-1
SUSE-SU-2016_0030-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0049-1
SUSE-SU-2016_0049-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0786-1
USN-2812-1
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