The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2015-12-15T21:00:00
Updated: 2017-09-13T09:57:01
Reserved: 2015-07-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-5312
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2015-12-15T21:59:00.113
Modified: 2019-03-08T16:06:36.980
Link: CVE-2015-5312
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