CVE-2021-3537
A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
CVE-2021-3537
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2021-3537
libxml2
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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Structured affected-version data
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[
{
"vendor": "n/a",
"product": "libxml2",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "libxml2 2.9.11"
}
]
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2021-3537
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- Event
- #21634 · Revision 1
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