XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in libxml2 parser.c

CVE-2016-4449 · MEDIUM Severity

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

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

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