GHSA-xr2r-hh4x-gv58

GHSA-xr2r-hh4x-gv58 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

7.5

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

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (3 in total, the first dated here)

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