Vulnerability CVE-2016-9597
Published: 2018-07-30

Description:
It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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 
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Novell -> LEAP 
HP -> Icewall federation agent 
HP -> Icewall file manager 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98567
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9597
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