CVE-2016-9597: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that Red Hat JBoss Core Services erratum RHSA-2016:2957 for CVE-2016-3705 did not actually include the fix for the issue found in libxml2, making it vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a Stack Overflow. This is a regression CVE for the same issue as CVE-2016-3705.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• HP Icewall Federation Agent: version 3.0 only
• HP Icewall File Manager: version 3.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Xmlsoft LIBXML2: version 2.9.3 only

Published 2018-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.