CVE-2016-4483 — Vulnetix

CVE-2016-4483 PUBLISHED

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

EPSS 1.27% · 79.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.27%

79.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	libxml2	2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu2, 2.9.2+zdfsg1-4ubuntu3, 2.9.3+dfsg1-1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	libxml2	0, 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu2, 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu3

Exploit Intelligence

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8 (nist-nvd)
Kouf320/attacker-lab-cve-2017-5638-cve-2021-41773-paper (github-poc)
Kouf320/attacker-lab-cve-2017-5638-cve-2021-41773-paper (github-poc)
Kouf320/attacker-lab-cve-2017-5638-cve-2021-41773-paper (github-poc)
Kouf320/attacker-lab-cve-2017-5638-cve-2021-41773-paper (github-poc)
Kouf320/attacker-lab-cve-2017-5638-cve-2021-41773-paper (github-poc)
Kouf320/attacker-lab-cve-2017-5638-cve-2021-41773-paper (github-poc)
Kouf320/attacker-lab-cve-2017-5638-cve-2021-41773-paper (github-poc)
Using Struts2 and PowerShell to recreate CVE-2017-5638 OGNL Injection vulnerability. (github-poc)
Using Struts2 and PowerShell to recreate CVE-2017-5638 OGNL Injection vulnerability. (github-poc)

…and 635 more exploits

Timeline

May 3, 2016 CVE Published
Oct 2, 2020 PoC Published
Nov 6, 2020 PoC Published
Sep 6, 2021 PoC Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4483 third-party-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2994-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4483 third-party-advisory

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