Description (CNA)
The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528
- https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bde
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528
- https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bde
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
No English description supplied.
No references supplied.