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CVE-2016-5300

January 25, 2021 admin CVE, CVE-2016-5300, Mailing List, MLIST, vulnerability

The XML parser in Expat does not use sufficient entropy for hash initialization, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted identifiers in an XML document. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-0876.