Out-of-Bounds Affecting libxml2 package, versions [,2.9.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.26% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBXML2-3004089
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Apr 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Apr 2013

CVE-2013-0338  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libxml2 to version 2.9.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to this entity, aka "internal entity expansion" with linear complexity.

CVSS Scores

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