Use After Free Affecting libxml2-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.96% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBXML2DEVEL-3262797
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed6 Dec 2017

Introduced: 6 Dec 2017

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 libxml2-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2-devel package and not the libxml2-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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.