Fluid Attacks Database

Description

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
nuget	libxml2	>=0 <2.9.4	-
debian 12	libxml2	>=0 <2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1	2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1
debian 14	libxml2	>=0 <2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1	2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1
debian 13	libxml2	>=0 <2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1	2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1
debian 11	libxml2	>=0 <2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1	2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1
rpm rhel7	libxml2	-	-
rpm rhel5	libxml2	-	-
rpm rhel6	libxml2	-	-

Aliases

1. CVE-2016-44832. NVD-2016-44833. OSV-2016-44834. OSV-DEBIAN-2016-44835. GCVE-2016-44836. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2016-4483

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