Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBXML2-10077537
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed18 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-8035  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The xz_decomp function in xzlib.c in libxml2 2.9.1 does not properly detect compression errors, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (process hang) via crafted XML data.