Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2-doc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBXML2DOC-2711847
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-7595  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2-doc package and not the libxml2-doc package as distributed by SLES.

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

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