CVE-2016-8980: XEE
First published: Wed Feb 01 2017(Updated: )
IBM BigFix Inventory v9 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources.
Credit: psirt@us.ibm.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| IBM License Metric Tool | =9.2.0 | |
| HP HP-UX | ||
| IBM AIX | ||
| Linux Linux kernel | ||
| Microsoft Windows | ||
| Oracle Solaris | ||
| IBM BigFix Inventory | =9.2 |
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Reference Links
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/type
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/ibm
- canonical/ibm license metric tool
- version/ibm license metric tool/9.2.0
- vendor/hp
- canonical/hp hp-ux
- canonical/ibm aix
- vendor/linux
- canonical/linux linux kernel
- vendor/microsoft
- canonical/microsoft windows
- vendor/oracle
- canonical/oracle solaris
- canonical/ibm bigfix inventory
- version/ibm bigfix inventory/9.2