CVE-2015-7498: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

December 15, 2015 (updated September 14, 2017)

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

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7498

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