DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4449

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4449
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4449.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4449
Upstream
Published
2016-06-09T16:59:07Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:21Z
Severity
  • 7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.4, when not in validating mode, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / libxml2

Package

Name
libxml2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxml2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}