CVE-2016-4472

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

30/06/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The overflow protection in Expat is removed by compilers with certain optimization settings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1283 and CVE-2015-2716.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

6.80

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat::::::::		2.1.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::-:::
cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:policy_auditor::::::::		6.5.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	2.7.0 (including)	2.7.15 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.3.0 (including)	3.3.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.4.0 (including)	3.4.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.5.0 (including)	3.5.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:python:python::::::::	3.6.0 (including)	3.6.2 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2016-4472

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools