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CVE-2015-7497

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Date: December 15, 2015

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlDictComputeFastQKey function in dict.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (21)

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=6360a31a84efe69d155ed96306b9a931a40beab9

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79508

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

Url: http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7497

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281862

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7497

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7497

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html

Url: https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04944172

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-7497

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-7497

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
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):	LOW

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-2015-7497

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Date: December 15, 2015

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (21)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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