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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSource libxml2 affect IBM Security Guardium (CVE-2016-2073)

Security Bulletin


Summary

libxml2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. IBM Security Guardium has addressed the applicable CVE

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-2073
DESCRIPTION: libxml2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the htmlParseNameComplex() function. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted XML file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110307 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Guardium V10x

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFRemediation/First Fix
IBM Security Guardium 10xhttps://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p200_GPU_Nov-2016-V10.1.2&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

12.1.16- Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21984606

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