CVE-2018-14404
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a | affected |
Weaknesses
- n/a
ADP Enrichment
CVE Program Container
Additional References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/10
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901817
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-2/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595985
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0002/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: partial
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/10
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901817
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-2/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595985
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0002/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
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