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Use After Free Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.4-r1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    10.58% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE39-LIBXML2-339147
  • published 23 Jul 2016
  • disclosed 23 Jul 2016
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Introduced: 23 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-5131 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.9 libxml2 to version 2.9.4-r1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

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