NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u7
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBXML2-429563
- published 22 Jul 2018
- disclosed 19 Jul 2018
Introduced: 19 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-14404 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
libxml2
to version 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u7 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2
package and not the libxml2
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.