CVE-2016-3705

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3705
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3705.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3705
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-05-17T14:08:04.593Z
Modified
2026-07-07T08:47:30.952998644Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "15.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "15.10"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:hp:icewall_federation_agent:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "hp:icewall_federation_agent",
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "3.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:hp:icewall_file_manager:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "hp:icewall_file_manager"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "42.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "42.1"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gnome/libxml2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gnome/libxml2
Events
Introduced
6657afe83a38278f124ace71dc85f60420beb2d5
Last affected
6657afe83a38278f124ace71dc85f60420beb2d5
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.9.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.9.3"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.9.3
v2.*
v2.9.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3705.json"

Git / gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/libxml2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.gnome.org/gnome/libxml2
Events
Introduced
6657afe83a38278f124ace71dc85f60420beb2d5
Last affected
6657afe83a38278f124ace71dc85f60420beb2d5
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.9.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.9.3"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.9.3
v2.*
v2.9.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3705.json"