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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2023-29469
HistoryApr 24, 2023 - 9:15 p.m.

Double free

2023-04-2421:15:00
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libxml2
security vulnerability
non-deterministic hashing
memory errors
double free

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

46.5%

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.4. When hashing empty dict strings in a crafted XML document, xmlDictComputeFastKey in dict.c can produce non-deterministic values, leading to various logic and memory errors, such as a double free. This behavior occurs because there is an attempt to use the first byte of an empty string, and any value is possible (not solely the ‘\0’ value).

CPENameOperatorVersion
debian_linuxeq10.0
libxml2lt2.10.4