VYPR
High severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 15, 2015· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2015-5312

CVE-2015-5312

Description

The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
nokogiriRubyGems
>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.7.11.6.7.1

Affected products

17

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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