CVE-2016-9597 vulnerability in Canonical and Other Products
Published on July 30, 2018
It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.
Weakness Type
What is a Stack Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
CVE-2016-9597 has been classified to as a Stack Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
Red Hat libxml2 Version all is affected by CVE-2016-9597Exploit Probability
EPSS
1.25%
Percentile
79.08%
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