6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.046 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.5%
libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project.
The “xmlXPtrEvalXPtrPart()” function in xpointer.c contains an off-by-one error.
A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to open a specially crafted XML document with an application using libxml2, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All libxml2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libxml2-2.8.0_rc1"
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gentoo | any | all | dev-libs/libxml2 | < 2.8.0_rc1 | UNKNOWN |