CVE-2016-1762

Key facts

CVSS score

8.1 (v3.1)

Severity

HIGH

CVSS vector

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

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-119

EPSS score

6.5% (94th percentile)

In CISA KEV

No

In EU EUVD

Yes (EUVD-2016-2857)

Published

March 24, 2016

NVD last modified

June 17, 2026

Status

Modified

Affected products

• apple / iphone os
• apple / mac os x
• apple / safari
• apple / tvos
• apple / watchos
• canonical / ubuntu linux
• canonical / ubuntu linux
• canonical / ubuntu linux
• canonical / ubuntu linux
• debian / debian linux
• mcafee / web gateway
• redhat / enterprise linux desktop
• redhat / enterprise linux desktop
• redhat / enterprise linux server
• redhat / enterprise linux server
• redhat / enterprise linux server aus
• redhat / enterprise linux server aus
• redhat / enterprise linux server aus
• redhat / enterprise linux server aus
• redhat / enterprise linux server eus
• redhat / enterprise linux server eus
• redhat / enterprise linux server eus
• redhat / enterprise linux server eus
• redhat / enterprise linux server eus
• redhat / enterprise linux server tus
• redhat / enterprise linux server tus
• redhat / enterprise linux server tus
• redhat / enterprise linux workstation
• redhat / enterprise linux workstation
• xmlsoft / libxml2

Certified products that may be affected

4 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11039-2020 - archived
• McAfee® Web Gateway Version 7.2.0.1 - McAfee, Inc. - Common Criteria 383-4-215 - archived
• Apple Mac OS X 10.6 - Apple Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0536-2010 - archived
• Apple Mac OS X v10.3.6 and Apple Mac OS X Server V10.3.6 - Apple Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-0086-2005 - archived

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html(Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html(Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00005.html(Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html(Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html(Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html(Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85059(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035353(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2994-1(Third Party Advisory)
• http://xmlsoft.org/news.html(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1292(Third Party Advisory)
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759671(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a7a94612aa3b16779e2c74e1fa353b5d9786c602(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10170(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
• https://support.apple.com/HT206166(Vendor Advisory)
• https://support.apple.com/HT206167(Vendor Advisory)
• https://support.apple.com/HT206168(Vendor Advisory)
• https://support.apple.com/HT206169(Vendor Advisory)
• https://support.apple.com/HT206171(Vendor Advisory)
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593(Third Party Advisory)