Denial of Service Vulnerability in libxml2 2.9.3

CVE-2016-3705 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

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