CVE Database · CVE-2015-8242
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
4.27%
Published
Dec 15, 2015
Modified
May 6, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
The xmlSAX2TextNode function in SAX2.c in the push interface in the HTML parser in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information via crafted XML data.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (15)
References (20)