CVE-2017-8872 (GCVE-0-2017-8872)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-10 05:14 – Updated: 2025-12-17 21:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The htmlParseTryOrFinish function in HTMLparser.c in libxml2 2.9.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) or information disclosure.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-17 21:59 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Assigner
References
2 references
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| https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775200 | x_refsource_MISC |
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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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