cve/2015/CVE-2015-5312.md

CVE-2015-5312

Description

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon