Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2015-7942
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
4.74%
Original Filing — NVD Description
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.