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DEBIAN-CVE-2025-9714

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-9714 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` were resetting recursion depth to zero before making potentially recursive calls. When such functions were called recursively this could allow for uncontrolled recursion and lead to a stack overflow. These functions now preserve recursion depth across recursive calls, allowing recursion depth to be controlled.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13libxml22.12.7+dfsg, 0, 2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1+deb13u1
Debian:14libxml22.14.3+dfsg, 2.14.3+dfsg, 2.14.2+dfsg
Debian:12libxml22.9.14+dfsg, 0, 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u3
Debian:11libxml20, *, 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u7

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Sep 10, 2025 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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