CVE-2016-5300

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5300
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5300.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5300
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-06-16T18:59:10.547Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:48:18.635083104Z
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 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "15.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                }
            ],
            "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:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        },
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.4.4"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "5.0.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "5.1.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "6.0.1"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:google:android:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "google:android",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libexpat/libexpat

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
fbc46fa2be307280648147543c053d05910f7a85
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.2.0"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

Other
REC1_0
R_1_95_0
R_1_95_2
R_1_95_3
R_1_95_4
R_1_95_5
R_1_95_6
R_1_95_7
R_1_95_8
R_2_0_0
R_2_0_1
R_2_1_0
R_2_1_1
V1990307
V19981122
V19981231
V19990109
V19990425
V19990626
V19990709
V19990728
V19991013
V1_0
V1_1
V20000512
beta2
beta3
beta4
jclark-orig
libexpat-alpha-1
sourceforge_init
start

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5300.json"