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CVE-2016-4483

libxml2: out-of-bounds read

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 3, 2016

Updated · September 21, 2026

Description

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

Statement

When a specially-crafted XML file is parsed via an application compiled against libxml2, this can cause the application to crash. (No code execution)

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow