suse · CVE-2016-3705

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 13:40:51 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 17:55:52 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-3705 severity important: SUSE including 132 source package names (libxml2, libxml2-2, …), 298 product×package rows across 75 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Liberty Linux 7, … (75 product lines)): Fixed 218, Known Not Affected 80.

Description:

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

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