CVE-2016-9597

Published: 30 July 2018

It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.

Notes

Red Hat bug states this CVE is for a Red Hat specific regression
that duplicated other public CVEs
"missing/incorrect fix for CVE-2016-3705 in the Red Hat JBoss
Core Services."

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9597
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1408305
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775380