CVE-2017-16931 Information

Description

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 mishandles parameter-entity references because the NEXTL macro calls the xmlParserHandlePEReference function in the case of a ’’ character in a DTD name.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://xmlsoft.org/news.html https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766956 https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/e26630548e7d138d2c560844c43820b6767251e3 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8