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CVSSv2

CVE-2015-8806

Published: 13/04/2016 Updated: 11/09/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

dict.c in libxml2 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via an unexpected character immediately after the "<!DOCTYPE html" substring in a crafted HTML document.

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xmlsoft libxml2

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debian debian linux 8.0

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Several security issues were fixed in libxml2 ...
Debian Bug report logs - #823414 libxml2: CVE-2016-3705: stack overflow before detecting invalid XML file Package: src:libxml2; Maintainer for src:libxml2 is Debian XML/SGML Group &lt;debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@listsaliothdebianorg&gt;; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso &lt;carnil@debianorg&gt; Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 14:09:02 UTC ...
Debian Bug report logs - #813613 libxml2: Heap-buffer overread in libxml2/dictc Package: src:libxml2; Maintainer for src:libxml2 is Debian XML/SGML Group &lt;debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@listsaliothdebianorg&gt;; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso &lt;carnil@debianorg&gt; Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 17:30:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #812807 libxml2: CVE-2016-2073: out-of-bounds read in htmlParseNameComplex() Package: src:libxml2; Maintainer for src:libxml2 is Debian XML/SGML Group &lt;debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@listsaliothdebianorg&gt;; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso &lt;carnil@debianorg&gt; Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:03:02 UTC Seve ...
Debian Bug report logs - #823405 libxml2: CVE-2016-4483 Package: src:libxml2; Maintainer for src:libxml2 is Debian XML/SGML Group &lt;debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@listsaliothdebianorg&gt;; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso &lt;carnil@debianorg&gt; Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 12:33:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Foun ...
Debian Bug report logs - #819006 libxml2: CVE-2016-3627: stack exhaustion in libxml2 parsing xml files in recover mode Package: src:libxml2; Maintainer for src:libxml2 is Debian XML/SGML Group &lt;debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@listsaliothdebianorg&gt;; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso &lt;carnil@debianorg&gt; Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 1 ...
dictc in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via an unexpected character immediately after the "&lt;!DOCTYPE html" substring in a crafted HTML document ...