Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBXML2-1244052
- published8 Apr 2021
- disclosed2 Apr 2021
Introduced: 2 Apr 2021
CVE-2020-27920 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2, watchOS 7.1, tvOS 14.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution.