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CVE-2015-8242
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2015-12-15 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
The xmlSAX2TextNode function in SAX2.c in the push interface in the HTML parser in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information via crafted XML data.
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, 15.10
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise IceWall Federation Agent: 3.0
- HP Icewall File Manager: 3.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0
- xmlsoft libxml2: through 2.9.2
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.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145382616617563&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/17/5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/18/23
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