CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9050

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-05-18 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-18
Last modified
2026-10-14
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-122, CWE-125

Description

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1839.

Affected configurations

• xmlsoft libxml2 2.9.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References