Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:7249Denial-of-Service (DoS)
0.011 Low
EPSS
Percentile
84.6%
libxml2.so is vulnerable to denial of service attack. This is due to incorrect entity boundaries and start tags which could lead to out-of-bounds heap read in the xmlParseMisc function in parser.c, allowing a context-dependent attacker to cause a denial of service condition.
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