CVE-2015-1819

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

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 products

Apple Iphone Os: through 9.2.1
macOS: through 10.11.3
Apple tvOS: through 9.1
Apple watchOS: through 2.1
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 7
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: through 5.0
xmlsoft Libxml: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172710.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172943.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1419.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

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