CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5969
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• xmlsoft libxml2 2.9.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01 security.gentoo.org