CVE-2015-1819 - Theocentric Nittit

Description

The xmlreader in libxml allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XML data related to an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1419.html https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=213f1fe0d76d30eaed6e5853057defc43e6df2c9 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2812-1 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html http://xmlsoft.org/news.html https://support.apple.com/HT206166 https://support.apple.com/HT206169 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html https://support.apple.com/HT206168 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html https://support.apple.com/HT206167 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75570 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172710.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172943.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-08 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034243