Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.4+dfsg1-7+deb10u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-LIBXML2-3059802
  • published22 Oct 2022
  • disclosed23 Nov 2022

Introduced: 22 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-40303  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 libxml2 to version 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+deb10u5 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1