CVE-2021-3537Medium· 5.9▾ SunlitA vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, t…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 32.5 · likelihood 0.7 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
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A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
libxml2 < 2.9.11jboss_core_servicesenterprise_linux = 6.0enterprise_linux = 7.0enterprise_linux = 8.0debian_linux = 9.0fedora = 33fedora = 34active_iq_unified_managerclustered_data_ontapclustered_data_ontap_antivirus_connectormanageability_software_development_kitontap_select_deploy_administration_utilitysnapdrivehci_h410c_firmwarecommunications_cloud_native_core_network_function_cloud_native_environment = 1.10.0enterprise_manager_base_platform = 13.4.0.0enterprise_manager_base_platform = 13.5.0.0enterprise_manager_ops_center = 12.4.0.0mysql_workbench <= 8.0.26openjdk = 8peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools = 8.58real_user_experience_insight = 13.4.1.0real_user_experience_insight = 13.5.1.0Upgrade past the affected range:
libxml2 2.9.11Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
CVE-2021-3517High· 8.6There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11
CVE-2021-3518High· 8.8There's a flaw in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11
CVE-2020-24977Medium· 6.5GNOME project libxml2 v2.9.10 has a global buffer over-read vulnerability in xmlEncodeEntitiesInternal at libxml2/entities.c
CVE-2020-7595High· 7.5xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.
CVE-2019-20388High· 7.5xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c in libxml2 2.9.10 allows an xmlSchemaValidateStream memory leak.
CVE-2018-14404Medium· 6.5A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case