It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2016-9597 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 4.3 |
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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 |
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Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 | RHSA-2018:2486 | 2018-08-16 |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libxml2 | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | libxml2 | Not affected |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | libxml2 | Not affected |