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…

Published 8 y ago 2018-07-30 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

4.0%

percentile 91%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

4.00% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	5.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`

Affected products

Red Hat libxml2

Classification

Weakness

CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

securityfocus.com /bid/98567 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-9597 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-9597
NVD: CVE-2016-9597

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