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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-10672

Use-after-free in the XML-LibXML module through 2.0129 for Perl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild call.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:48 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-10672

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Jun 2017, 08:29 UTC

Use-after-free in the XML-LibXML module through 2.0129 for Perl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild call.

osv:CVE-2017-10672
Complete source record
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