CVE-2015-7500 Memory corruption in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via out-of-bounds heap read in libxml2, affecting applications using the library.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2015-7500?

CVE-2015-7500 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 15 Dec 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The xmlParseMisc function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via unspecified vectors related to incorrect entities boundaries and start tags.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7500?

It affects 13 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Mac Os X, Apple Tvos, Apple Watchos, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux and 7 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7500?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-7500 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7500 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7500, ECHO-35d3-ebf0-a747, GHSA-vqj7-f9h9-2m3r, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7500.

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