CVE-2016-0729: Fedoraproject Fedora

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 9.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in (1) internal/XMLReader.cpp, (2) util/XMLURL.cpp, and (3) util/XMLUri.cpp in the XML Parser library in Apache Xerces-C before 3.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault or memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted document.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only; version 24 only
• Samsung x14j Firmware: version t-ms14jakucb-1102.5 only

Published 2016-04-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.