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
6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.046 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.5%
Juri Aedla discovered that libxml2 contained an off by one error in its
XPointer functionality. If a user or application linked against libxml2
were tricked into opening a specially crafted XML file, an attacker could
cause the application to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking the program.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | libxml2 | < 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.9 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | libxml2-dbg | < 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.9 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | libxml2-dev | < 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.9 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | libxml2-udeb | < 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.9 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | libxml2-utils | < 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.9 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | python-libxml2 | < 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.9 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | python-libxml2-dbg | < 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.9 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 12.04 | noarch | libxml2 | < 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 12.04 | noarch | libxml2-dbg | < 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 12.04 | noarch | libxml2-dev | < 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.1 | UNKNOWN |