debian · CVE-2017-16931

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:00:17 GMT

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CVE-2017-16931 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libxml2), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a '%' character in a DTD name.

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