CVE-2016-1762

HIGH 8.1CVE-2016-1762 · Published 24/03/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-1762 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.1) vulnerability affecting safari (apple), web gateway (mcafee), libxml2 (xmlsoft).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.1%, higher than 93.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 9.1, 2.9.4 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
safari apple	`< 9.1`	`9.1`
web gateway mcafee	`> 7.5.2.11, ≤ 7.6.2.3≤ 7.5.2.10`	No fix yet
libxml2 xmlsoft	`< 2.9.4`	`2.9.4`

Description

The xmlNextChar function in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted XML document.

References

lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html · Mailing List
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html · Mailing List
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html · Mailing List
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html · Mailing List
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00005.html · Mailing List
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html · Third Party Advisory
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html · Third Party Advisory
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html · Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/85059 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1035353 · Third Party Advisory

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