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CVE-2015-8035

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8035 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the xz_decomp function of libxml2 versions 2.9.1 and earlier, affecting products from Apple, Canonical, Debian, and XMLSoft. An attacker can exploit this by providing crafted XML data, causing a process hang due to improper compression error detection. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity and only a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 9.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 10.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0320 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-35/ansible-tower:3.5.6-1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7Fixed in: ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.4-1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libxml2-0:2.9.1-6.el7.4
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 JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2Fixed in: libxml2

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8035Moderate

libxml2: DoS caused by incorrect error detection during XZ decompression

Nov 2, 2015

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
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
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-1089.html
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-37
support.apple.com / HT206166
support.apple.com / HT206167
support.apple.com / HT206168
support.apple.com / HT206169
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3430
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/11/02/2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/11/02/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/11/03/1
securityfocus.com / bid/77390
securitytracker.com / id/1034243
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2812-1
xmlsoft.org / news.html
Vendor Advisory