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CVE-2017-16932
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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16932
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16932.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16932
Aliases
GHSA-x2fm-93ww-ggvx
Downstream
ALPINE-CVE-2017-16932
CLEANSTART-2026-LA13761
CLEANSTART-2026-NJ87139
CLEANSTART-2026-TC95380
CLEANSTART-2026-WX01708
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16932
DLA-1194-1
DLA-2972-1
MGASA-2018-0048
MGASA-2018-0050
SUSE-SU-2018:0395-1
SUSE-SU-2022:1833-1
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16932
USN-3504-1
USN-3739-1
Related
SUSE-SU-2018:0395-1
SUSE-SU-2022:1833-1
Published
2017-11-23T21:29:00.437Z
Modified
2026-05-15T04:01:02.108224508Z
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
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Summary
[none]
Details
parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.
References
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579
https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
https://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
Affected packages
CVE-2017-16932 - OSV