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CVE-2016-9597 (GCVE-0-2016-9597)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-30 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:59
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Summary
It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat libxml2 Affected: all
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Date Public
2016-12-22 00:00
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