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CVE-2016-5300

Published: 6/16/2016 Last updated: 8/6/2024 Reserved: 6/4/2016

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (4)

conf-expat conf-gtk2 conf-gtk3 ocaml-expat

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a <= 5.19.*

References (26)