CVE-2016-3705

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
May 17, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-3705: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix