Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-4472
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.046
EPSS Ranking 88.6%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.1
CVSS v2 Score 6.8
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21
- https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bde
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91528
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3013-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1344251
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-21
- https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/code_git/ci/f0bec73b018caa07d3e75ec8dd967f3785d71bde
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20
Products affected by CVE-2016-4472
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:-
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.1
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.2
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.3
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.4
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.5
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.6
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.7
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:1.95.8
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:2.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:2.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:2.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libexpat_project:libexpat:2.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:policy_auditor:-
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:policy_auditor:5.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:policy_auditor:5.3.0.167
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.10
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.11
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.12
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.13
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.14
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.5
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.6
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.7
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.8
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.7.9
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.3.6
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.6.1
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04