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CVE-2015-8242

Published: Dec 15, 2015Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-119
NVD MITRE
5.8CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
4.3%
Top 10.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

The xmlSAX2TextNode function in SAX2.c in the push interface in the HTML parser in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information via crafted XML data.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:NC:PI:NA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:PConfidentiality
Partial
I:NIntegrity
None
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected Products

UnixСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
UbuntuCanonical Ltd.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
MacOSApple Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / unix-bsd
RISC OSAcorn Computers
Embedded
Operating Systems
OS/2IBM Corp.
Mixed
Databases / relational
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
apple inc.commercialUSMobile Appsaka apple
acorn computerscommercialGBOperating Systemsaka acorn
ibm corp.commercialUSDatabasesaka ibm, ibm corporation
and 19 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=8fb4a770075628d6441fb17a1e435100e2f3b1a2
git.gnome.org
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281950
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756372
bugzilla.gnome.org
and 32 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Dec 15, 2015
Last Updated
May 6, 2026

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