CVE-2017-5969

Description

libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3