{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2015-10-22T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "libxml2: heap-based buffer overflow in xmlParseConditionalSections()",
    "id" : "1276297",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276297"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.3",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-122",
  "details" : [ "The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941.", "A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash causing a denial of service." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2015-12-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:2549",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "libxml2-0:2.7.6-20.el6_7.1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-12-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:2550",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7_2.2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0",
    "release_date" : "2016-05-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:1089",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:3.0",
    "package" : "libxml2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "libxml2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "libxml2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "libxml2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7942\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7942" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2015-7942",
  "csaw" : false
}