CVE-2018-14404CWE-476

CVE-2018-14404

Medium · published July 19, 2018

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
4%
Percentile
89.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03748 · 89.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2018-07-19T17:29Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
canonical/ubuntu_linuxall versions—
canonical/ubuntu_linuxall versions—
canonical/ubuntu_linuxall versions—
canonical/ubuntu_linuxall versions—
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
xmlsoft/libxml2≤ 2.9.8—
References (19)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543 · [email protected]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901817 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595985 · [email protected]https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/10 · [email protected]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html · [email protected]https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html · [email protected]https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0002/ · [email protected]https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/ · [email protected]https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-2/ · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901817 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595985 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/10 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0002/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-2/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JUL 13:00Z
    A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression…
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