CVE-2013-1969

Published Apr 25, 2013

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.9.0 and possibly other versions might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) htmlParseChunk and (2) xmldecl_done functions, as demonstrated by a buffer overflow in the xmlBufGetInputBase function.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "955673D9-2912-48A2-93C9-10430290A4AF"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References