CVE-2016-4472 (GCVE-0-2016-4472)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-06-30 17:00
Modified
2026-10-08 21:03
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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