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CVE-2015-8806
dict.c in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via an…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 5.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
dict.c in libxml2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via an unexpected character immediately after the "<!DOCTYPE html" substring in a crafted HTML document.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.7% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsnokogiriGHSA-7hp2-xwpj-95jq (opens in a new tab)
References
7
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749115 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-3593 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-2994-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160203 Re: Out-of-bounds Read in the libxml2's htmlParseNameComplex() function (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-37 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 82071 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0444 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-7hp2-xwpj-95jq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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