The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2016-06-30T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:32:25.570Z

Reserved: 2016-05-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-4472

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-06-30T17:59:04.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:52:17.620

Link: CVE-2016-4472

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-05-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-4472 - Bugzilla