CVE-2023-45322 (GCVE-0-2023-45322)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-06 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:36
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Summary
libxml2 through 2.11.5 has a use-after-free that can only occur after a certain memory allocation fails. This occurs in xmlUnlinkNode in tree.c. NOTE: the vendor's position is "I don't think these issues are critical enough to warrant a CVE ID ... because an attacker typically can't control when memory allocations fail."
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