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CVE-2016-9597

Published: 30 July 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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
Red Hat bug states this CVE is for a Red Hat specific regression
that duplicated other public CVEs
"missing/incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3705 in the Red Hat JBoss
Core Services."

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
libxml2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Not vulnerable

trusty Not vulnerable

upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable

yakkety Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H