CVE-2013-1969 (GCVE-0-2013-1969)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-04-25 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:20
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.9.0 and possibly other versions might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) htmlParseChunk and (2) xmldecl_done functions, as demonstrated by a buffer overflow in the xmlBufGetInputBase function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690202 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1817-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/17/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/53061 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/19/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2012-12-14 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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