libxml2 2.9.2 does not properly stop parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and libxml2 crash) via crafted XML data to the (1) xmlParseEntityDecl or (2) xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c, as demonstrated by non-terminated entities.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2015-11-18T16:00:00
Updated: 2017-09-13T09:57:01
Reserved: 2015-10-22T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-7941
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2015-11-18T16:59:04.333
Modified: 2017-09-14T01:29:03.757
Link: CVE-2015-7941
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