A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxml2 parsed certain crafted XML input. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML file that, when opened in an application linked against libxml2, would cause the application to crash causing a denial of service.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | libxml2 | 2015-12-14 10:00 | ALAS-2015-628 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | libxml2 | 2019-05-29 19:14 | ALAS2-2019-1220 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |