CVE-2020-7595

Public on 2020-01-21

Modified on 2020-10-27

Description

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

7.5

See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	libxml2	2020-10-26 18:09	ALAS-2020-1438
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	libxml2	2020-10-22 18:25	ALAS2-2020-1534

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	CVSSv2	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-7595 Mitre: CVE-2020-7595 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity