Security Bulletin
Summary
Denial-Of-service vulnerability has been discovered in Libxml2 that was reported on Dec 31, 2015
Vulnerability Details
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8710
Description: Libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds memory access when parsing an unclosed HTML comment. By using the ""<!--"" HTML comment without close, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an out-of-bounds read and cause the system to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110076 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
3.3, 3.3.0.1, 3.3.0.2, 3.3.0.3, 3.3.0.4, 3.3.0.5, 3.3.0.6, 3.3.0.7
Remediation/Fixes
Upgrade to Rational Systems Tester Interim Fix 4 for 3.3.0.7.
Rational Systems Tester (3.3.0.7.iFix4, Windows)
Rational Systems Tester (3.3.0.7.iFix4, Linux)
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
19 May 2016: Original copy 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.
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Internal Use Only
Advisory #4623 Record#69848
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg21983713