CVE-2016-9596: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

August 16, 2018 (updated November 16, 2020)

libxml2, as used in Red Hat JBoss Core Services and when in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3627.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1408302
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9596

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