Published: 08/07/2016 Updated: 12/02/2023

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

Stack-based buffer overflow in Apache Xerces-C++ prior to 3.1.4 allows context-dependent malicious users to cause a denial of service via a deeply nested DTD.

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Debian Bug report logs - #828990 xerces-c: CVE-2016-4463 Package: src:xerces-c; Maintainer for src:xerces-c is William Blough <bblough@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:45:10 UTC Severity: important Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security, upstream Found in ve ...

Synopsis Moderate: xerces-c security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for xerces-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 74 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring ...

Synopsis Moderate: xerces-c security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for xerces-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, ...

Synopsis Moderate: xerces-c security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for xerces-c is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 75 Extended Update SupportRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring ...

Brandon Perry discovered that xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++, fails to successfully parse a DTD that is deeply nested, causing a stack overflow A remote unauthenticated attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service against applications using the xerces-c library Additionally this update includes an enhan ...

A stack exhaustion flaw was found in the way Xerces-C XML parser handled deeply nested DTDs An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using Xerces-C by tricking it into processing specially crafted data(CVE-2016-4463) ...

A stack exhaustion flaw was found in the way Xerces-C XML parser handled deeply nested DTDs An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using Xerces-C by tricking it into processing specially crafted data ...

Proof of concept for CVE-2016-4463

CVE-2016-4463 An implementation of the CVE-2016-4463 exploit Xerces 313 and below exploit I meant to get this submitted to Exploit-DB, but I do not have a good go-to app to test this against Java OpenSAML should be vulnerable, but it will take some time to explore this

CWE-119 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036211 https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10510&version=12336069 http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2016-4463.txt https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3610 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137714/Apache-Xerces-C-XML-Parser-Crash.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91501 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-2069 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00053.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00013.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538784/100/0/threaded https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3335 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3514 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3506 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828990 https://nvd.nist.gov https://github.com/arntsonl/CVE-2016-4463 https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3610

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