GHSA-h3v6-m99p-pjm8

GHSA-h3v6-m99p-pjm8 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlParseXmlDecl function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors related to extracting errors after an encoding conversion failure.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

May 17, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (5 in total, the first dated here)
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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