The (1) xmlParserEntityCheck and (2) xmlParseAttValueComplex functions in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.3 do not properly keep track of the recursion depth, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2016-05-17T14:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T00:03:34.486Z
Reserved: 2016-03-30T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-3705
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-05-17T14:08:04.593
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2016-3705
 Redhat
                        Redhat