CVE-2015-1819

N/A
Published: August 14, 2015 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM UTC
12 products affected across 8 vendorsmacOSDebian LinuxFedora

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%

Description

The xmlreader in libxml allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XML data, related to an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (24)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399

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