CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4008

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2010-11-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-11-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

libxml2 before 2.7.8, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, Apple Safari 5.0.2 and earlier, and other products, reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XML document.

Affected configurations

• google chrome (< 7.0.517.44) • apple itunes (< 10.2) • apple safari (< 5.0.4) • apple iphone os (< 4.2) • apple mac os x (< 10.6.7) • xmlsoft libxml2 (< 2.7.8) • debian debian linux 5.0 • debian debian linux 6.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.10 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 6.3 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • opensuse opensuse 11.1 • opensuse opensuse 11.2 • opensuse opensuse 11.3 • suse suse linux enterprise server 10 • suse suse linux enterprise server 11 • apache openoffice (>= 2.0.0 <= 2.4.3) • apache openoffice (>= 3.0.0 < 3.3.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References