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CVE-2016-4483

Date: April 11, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (19)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4483

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4483

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4483

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4483

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4

Url: https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-4483

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CWE-502

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2016-4483

Date: April 11, 2017

Language: C

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