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Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting libxml2 package, versions *

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.6% (79th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
4.3 medium
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBXML2-542925
  • published 22 Jan 2020
  • disclosed 21 Jan 2020
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Introduced: 21 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-7595 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-835 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 libxml2.

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.

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

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