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CVE-2015-5312

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Date: December 15, 2015

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

5.9

Related Resources (30)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5312

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430

Url: http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5312

Url: https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172

Url: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/aSbgDiwb24s

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276693

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=69030714cde66d525a8884bda01b9e8f0abf8e1e

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206168

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206167

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206166

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79536

Url: https://support.apple.com/HT206169

Url: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2015-5312.yml

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-5312

Severity Score

5.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-400

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.9
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.1
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2015-5312

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Date: December 15, 2015

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

Related Resources (30)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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