CVE-2017-9050CWE-122CWE-125

CVE-2017-9050

High · published May 18, 2017

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
5%
Percentile
91.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1839.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04626 · 91.7th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow; CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2017-05-18T10:29Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
xmlsoft/libxml2all versions—
References (13)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01 · [email protected]http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98568 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952 · [email protected]http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1 · [email protected]http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98568 · [email protected]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · [email protected]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 MAY 06:13Z
    libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c
    cvelistv5