CVE-2016-9597

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-674

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 products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Hewlett Packard Enterprise IceWall Federation Agent: 3.0
HP Icewall File Manager: 3.0
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
xmlsoft libxml2: 2.9.3

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98567
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9597
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98567
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9597

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