CVE-2016-4448

critical
Published 2016-06-09 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Format string vulnerability in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via format string specifiers in unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.9.4+dfsg1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.9.4+dfsg1-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.9.4+dfsg1-1
debian debiansidfixed2.9.4+dfsg1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.9.4+dfsg1-1
redhat rhel6.0not-affected
redhat rhel7.0not-affected
macos macosaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
hp hpicewall_federation_agent3.0
xmlsoftlibxml2{"endIncluding":"2.9.3"}
macos appleicloud{"endExcluding":"5.2.1"}5.2.1
macos appleitunes{"endIncluding":"12.4.1"}
tenablelog_correlation_engine4.8.0
mcafeeweb_gateway{"endIncluding":"7.5.2.10"}

References

CWEs

CWE-134

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.