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CVE-2016-4483

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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.

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Related Resources (19)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4483
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4483
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4483
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-4483
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfd
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-4483

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CWE-502

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

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CVSS v3.1

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