CVE-2015-1819: Apple iPhone OS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The xmlreader in libxml allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XML data, related to an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 9.2.1
• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.3
• Apple tvOS: up to and including 9.1
• Apple watchOS: up to and including 2.1
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Oracle Linux: version 7 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: up to and including 5.0
• Xmlsoft Libxml: any version

Published 2015-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.