Security Advisory
CVE-2015-5312
7.1
Vulnerability Description
The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.
Published Date
December 15, 2015
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory