github - ghsa-fh2x-v9fw-7v49

ghsa-fh2x-v9fw-7v49

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:02

Modified

2022-05-13 01:02

Severity ?

4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

** DISPUTED ** libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser."

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cve-2017-5969

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-04-11 16:00

Modified

2024-08-05 15:18

Severity ?

Summary

libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519	x_refsource_MISC
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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Author	Source	Type	Date

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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