VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4472

high
Published 2016-06-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.1

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.1.1-2
sid Fixed 2.1.1-2
forky Fixed 2.1.1-2
bullseye Fixed 2.1.1-2
bookworm Fixed 2.1.1-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libexpat_projectlibexpat{"endIncluding":"2.1.1"}
mcafeepolicy_auditor{"endExcluding":"6.5.1"}6.5.1
python pythonpython{"startIncluding":"2.7.0","endExcluding":"2.7.15"}2.7.15

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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