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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Oct 16
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
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Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Security



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Chromium: Vulnerability reported in libxml

Project Member Reported by vomit.go...@appspot.gserviceaccount.com, Oct 16

Issue description

Automated analysis has detected that the following third party packages have had vulnerabilities publicly reported. 

NOTE: There may be several bugs listed below - in almost all cases, all bugs can be quickly addressed by upgrading to the latest version of the package.

Package Name: libxml
Package Version: [cpe:/a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.7.7]

Advisory: CVE-2016-9596
  Details: https://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2016-9596
  CVSS severity score: 4.3/10.0
  Confidence: high
  Description:

libxml2, as used in Red Hat JBoss Core Services and when in recovery mode, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted XML document.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3627.
Advisory: CVE-2016-9598
  Details: https://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2016-9598
  CVSS severity score: 4.3/10.0
  Confidence: high
  Description:

libxml2, as used in Red Hat JBoss Core Services, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a missing fix for CVE-2016-4483.


 
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Both of these are denial of service attacks, uninteresting for security implications. WontFixing.
Issue 896216 has been merged into this issue.
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Today (17 hours ago)

Labels: -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam allpublic
This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

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