cve/2015/CVE-2015-7498.md

### [CVE-2015-7498](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7498)
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### Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

#### Github
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