CVE-2015-8242 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8242?

CVE-2015-8242 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 xmlSAX2TextNode function in SAX2.c in the push interface in the HTML parser in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information via crafted XML data.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8242?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Mac Os X, Apple Tvos, Apple Watchos, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Hp Icewall Federation Agent and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8242?

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-2015-8242 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8242 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Iphone Os

• CVE-2021-30666 Apple iOS WebKit Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-30761 Apple iOS WebKit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-30762 Apple iOS WebKit Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4657 Apple iOS Webkit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-7286 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Iphone Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8242, ECHO-4fbb-139d-20f4, GHSA-f254-qfhg-6649, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8242.