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CVE-2015-7498
Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause…
Medium5.0EPSS 7.2%
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- redhat
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.2% · top 5.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (16)
- RHSA-2015:2550 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=afd27c21f6b36e22682b7da20d726bce2dcb2f43 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3430 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281879 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1089 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2834-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 79548 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1034243 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:2549 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- HPSBGN03537 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-37 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:2372 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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