PT-2015-4544 · Apache+4 · Apache Xerces-C+4

Beford · Published 2015-03-09 · Updated 2023-02-06 · CVE-2015-0252

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Xerces-C versions prior to 3.1.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a segmentation fault and crash, via crafted XML data. This is due to a problem in the internal/XMLReader.cpp file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.1.2, update to version 3.1.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the input of crafted XML data to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1695

CESA-2015_1193

CVE-2015-0252

DLA-181-1

DSA-3199-1

MGASA-2015-0136

RHSA-2015:1193

RHSA-2015_1193

SUSE-SU-2015:0597-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0597-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Apache Xerces-C

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

References · 50

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/36906 · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-0252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3199 · Vendor Advisory
• http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2015-0252.txt · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0252 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0252 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00012.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3199 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1695 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152882.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0252 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153094.html · Vendor Advisory