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CVE-2017-16932
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-11-23 · updated 2026-10-14
- Weakness: CWE-835
Description
parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.
Affected products
- xmlsoft libxml2: through 2.9.4
References
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579
- https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
- https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
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