cve/2015/CVE-2015-7941.md

CVE-2015-7941

Description

libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.

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/mrash/afl-cve