PT-2016-6354 · Expat+5 · Expat+5

Padma81 · Published 2016-06-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5300

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

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

Description The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for a previous vulnerability.

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

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2088

CVE-2016-5300

DLA-508-1

DSA-3597-1

MGASA-2016-0227

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10077-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0415-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0424-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1

USN-3010-1

USN-3013-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Expat

Suse

Ubuntu

Itunes

References · 71

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5300 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3013-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5300 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6702 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:0415-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4472 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5300 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6702 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5300 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0227 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3597-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0876 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3010-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libxmltok · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3597-1 · Vendor Advisory