Vulnerability CVE-2015-7497


Published: 2015-12-15   Modified: 2015-12-16

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlDictComputeFastQKey function in dict.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Xmlsoft -> Libxml2 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux desktop 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux hpc node 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux server 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux workstation 
HP -> Icewall federation agent 
HP -> Icewall file manager 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79508
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281862
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=6360a31a84efe69d155ed96306b9a931a40beab9
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37

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