A denial of service flaw was found in libxml2. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to crash.
Find out more about CVE-2015-8035 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue did not affect the versions of libxml2 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not include support for LZMA compression support.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 | RHSA-2016:1089 | 2016-05-17 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 | libxml2 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libxml2 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | libxml2 | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | libxml2 | Not affected |
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