suse · CVE-2016-3627

Quick triage

Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:40:47 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 17:56:02 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-3627 severity moderate: SUSE including 363 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 502 product×package rows across 67 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Liberty Linux 7, … (67 product lines)): Fixed 272, Known Affected 157, Known Not Affected 73.

Description:

The xmlStringGetNodeList function in tree.c in libxml2 2.9.3 and earlier, when used in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion, stack consumption, and application crash) via a crafted XML document.

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