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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2 Open this link in a new tab

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    EPSS 0.43% (75th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBXML2-1244051
  • published 8 Apr 2021
  • disclosed 2 Apr 2021
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Introduced: 2 Apr 2021

CVE-2020-27920 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Big Sur 11.1, Security Update 2020-001 Catalina, Security Update 2020-007 Mojave, macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2, watchOS 7.1, tvOS 14.2. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution.