CVE-2022-29824

Public on 2022-05-03
Modified on 2023-04-26
Description

A flaw was found in the libxml2 library in functions used to manipulate the xmlBuf and the xmlBuffer types. A substantial input causes values to calculate buffer sizes to overflow, resulting in an out-of-bounds write.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 libxml2 2023-04-27 16:19 ALAS-2023-1743
Amazon Linux 2 - Core libxml2 2022-09-15 04:46 ALAS2-2022-1848
Amazon Linux 2023 libxml2 2023-02-17 20:47 ALAS2023-2023-096

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H