suse · CVE-2016-9596

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:48:02 UTC Updated: 2025-10-05 02:33:26 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-9596 severity moderate: SUSE including 5 source package names (libxml2, libxml2-2, libxml2-2-32bit, libxml2-doc, libxml2-tools), 73 product×package rows across 17 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5, … (17 product lines)): Known Not Affected 73.

Description:

libxml2, as used in Red Hat JBoss Core Services and when in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3627.

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