Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 14	libxml2	>=0 <2.9.3+dfsg1-1	2.9.3+dfsg1-1
debian 12	libxml2	>=0 <2.9.3+dfsg1-1	2.9.3+dfsg1-1
debian 13	libxml2	>=0 <2.9.3+dfsg1-1	2.9.3+dfsg1-1
nuget	libxml2	>=0 <=2.9.2	-
rpm rhel5	libxml2	-	-
rpm rhel6	libxml2	<0:2.7.6-20.el6_7.1	0:2.7.6-20.el6_7.1
rpm rhel7	libxml2	<0:2.9.1-6.el7_2.2	0:2.9.1-6.el7_2.2

Aliases

1. CVE-2015-74982. NVD-2015-74983. OSV-DEBIAN-2015-74984. OSV-2015-74985. GCVE-2015-74986. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2015-7498

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