Security Advisory
CVE-2015-7942
6.8
Vulnerability Description
The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941.
Published Date
November 18, 2015
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory