SB2016070401 - Denial of service vulnerability in Apache Xerces-C
Published: July 5, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016070401
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) DTD parsing stack overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-4463)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause the target application to crash.The vulnerability exists due to boundary error when processing DTD files. A remote unauthenticated attacker can cause a stack-based buffer overflow in the xml parser library by creating a specially crafted DTD file.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.