CVE-2016-5300

Publication date

2016-06-16 18:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.