Resource Management Errors Affecting libxml2 package, versions [,2.7.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.82% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBXML2-3004081
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Nov 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Nov 2008

CVE-2008-4226  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libxml2 to version 2.7.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Integer overflow in the xmlSAX2Characters function in libxml2 2.7.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large XML document.

CVSS Base Scores

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