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CVE-2015-7941

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7941 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libxml2 versions prior to 2.9.2, affecting products like Canonical Ubuntu Linux and XMLSoft libxml2. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application via crafted XML data that leads to an out-of-bounds read during entity or conditional section parsing. Rated with a CVSS score of 4.3, it has a network attack vector and medium attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0307 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.7.6-20.el6_7.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7_2.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0Fixed in: libxml2
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libxml2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libxml2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2Fixed in: libxml2

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-7941Low

libxml2: Out-of-bounds memory access

Feb 22, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177341.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177381.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
git.gnome.org / browse/libxml2/commit
git.gnome.org / browse/libxml2/commit
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-37
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3430
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/8
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
securityfocus.com / bid/74241
securitytracker.com / id/1034243
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2812-1
xmlsoft.org / news.html