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CVE-2016-9597

N/A

Published: July 30, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:56 AM UTC

6 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxLeap

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 4%

Description

It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.

Affected

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

Ubuntu Linux · Canonicalrubygems

95%

12.04 14.04 15.10 16.04

Debian Linux · Debiandrupal

95%

Icewall Federation Agent · HP

95%

Icewall File Manager · HP

95%

Leap · openSUSEdrupal

95%

LIBXML2 · Xmlsoft

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98567

x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking

Source: [email protected]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9597

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-674CWE-119

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