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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-9805 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

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Updated: 2024-08-06T02:35:02.296Z

Reserved: 2016-10-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-8980

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-02-01T20:59:03.097

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-8980

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