Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)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-LIBXML2-13865274
  • published10 Nov 2025
  • disclosed7 Nov 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-12863  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the xmlSetTreeDoc function in the tree.c file. An attacker can cause a crash of services or applications by providing crafted XML content that triggers access to a namespace pointer referencing freed memory.