CVE-2015-8710

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

4.92% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 91.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-04-11 21:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 08:29Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2015-12-31

Assigning CNA

debian

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

9f0873693538c90543cc3fb8770e28ef7708762c5905cbb833a99dc3a3fdecfa

• hackerone.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/57125#activity-384861x_refsource_MISC
• bugzilla.gnome.orghttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746048x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.debian.orgDSA-3430http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150913 Re: libxml2 issue: out-of-bounds memory access when parsing an unclosed HTML commenthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/13/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:1089http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1089.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• git.gnome.orghttps://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e724879d964d774df9b7969fc846605aa1bac54cx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150419 libxml2 issue: out-of-bounds memory access when parsing an unclosed HTML commenthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/19/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.securityfocus.com79811http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79811vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20151231 Re: libxml2 issue: out-of-bounds memory access when parsing an unclosed HTML commenthttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/31/7mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST