5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
82.9%
The xmlParseXMLDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows
context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information via an (1)
unterminated encoding value or (2) incomplete XML declaration in XML data,
which triggers an out-of-bounds heap read.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | already fixed by the following patches in wily+: 0011-Do-not-process-encoding-values-if-the-declaration-if.patch 0012-Fail-parsing-early-on-if-encoding-conversion-failed.patch |