Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)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-LIBXML2-10077549
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed18 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7942  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The xmlParseConditionalSections function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly skip intermediary entities when it stops parsing invalid input, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7941.