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CVE-2016-4472

CVE information

Published

7 years ago

Last Modified

4 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

CVSSv3.1 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.8/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
8.1/10
Exploit Score
2.2/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
Impact Score
5.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
High
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:policy_auditor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 6.5.1
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.6.0 3.6.2
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.5.0 3.5.4
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.4.0 3.4.7
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.3.0 3.3.7
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
2.7.0 2.7.15