suse · CVE-2016-4472

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:42:03 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 16:10:04 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-2016-4472 severity moderate: SUSE including 284 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, …), 505 product×package rows across 82 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS, … (82 product lines)): Fixed 315, Known Affected 157, Known Not Affected 33.

Description:

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.

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