PT-2016-2294 · Expat+6 · Expat+6

Adam Mariš · Published 2016-05-18 · Updated 2025-01-13 · CVE-2016-4472

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Expat (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the Expat library. It may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code using specially crafted XML data.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2088

ALT-PU-2017-2851

ALT-PU-2018-2782

BDU:2016-01683

CVE-2016-4472

DLA-483-1

DSA-3582-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10077-1

PSF-2016-6

SUSE-SU-2020:0497-1

USN-3013-1

USN-5455-1

USN-7199-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Expat

Linuxmint

Suse

Ubuntu

Itunes

References · 151

• 🔥 https://github.com/insuyun/CVE-2016-5636 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5300 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20843 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3013-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-46143 · Security Note
• https://safe-surf.ru/specialists/bulletins-nkcki/699689 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-04237 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4472 · Vendor Advisory
• https://safe-surf.ru/specialists/bulletins-nkcki/674193 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1061 · Security Note
• https://safe-surf.ru/specialists/bulletins-nkcki/699682 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20843 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-22823 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7199-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15903 · Security Note