CVE-2016-5300
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- 2016-06-16T18:59:10Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-15T08:13:01.002272Z
- 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
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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.
- References
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- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3597
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91159
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3010-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/04/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/04/5
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Affected packages
Git / github.com/libexpat/libexpat
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
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