Use After Free Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.14% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-LIBXML2-429327
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed28 Aug 2018

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-15412  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 libxml2 to version 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2 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.

Use after free in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.