Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBXML2-548411
  • published22 Jan 2020
  • disclosed21 Jan 2020

Introduced: 21 Jan 2020

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

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

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