CVE-2015-7500: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

December 15, 2015 (updated March 8, 2019)

The xmlParseMisc function in parser.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via unspecified vectors related to incorrect entities boundaries and start tags.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7500

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