CVE-2015-8806
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Denial of service or RCE from libxml2 and libxslt
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 16.04 | Affected | — |
| 15.10 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.9.3+dfsg1-1.1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| xmlsoft | libxml2 | {"endExcluding":"2.9.4"} | 2.9.4 |
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1473
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8806.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/5
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82071
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2994-1
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749115
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8806
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8806
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2015-8806.yml
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160928171015/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82071
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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