CVE-2010-4008

libxml2: Crash (stack frame overflow or NULL pointer dereference) by traversal of XPath axis

Published Nov 16, 2010 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 2.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
libxml2 before 2.7.8, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, Apple Safari 5.0.2 and earlier, and other products, reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XML document.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2128-1 New libxml2 packages fix potential code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-3984 libxml2 before 2.7.8, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, Apple Safari 5.0.2 and earlier, and other products, reads from invalid memory locations during processing of malformed XPath expressions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XML document.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1016-1 libxml2 vulnerability
References
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http://blog.bkis.com/en/libxml2-vulnerability-in-google-chrome-and-apple-safari/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58731 cve-icon cve-icon
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2010-November/msg00015.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130331363227777&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/40775 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42109 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42175 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42314 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42429 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4554 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4566 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2128 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:243 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2010-4008_CVE-2010-4494.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1749.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44779 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1016-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3076 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3100 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0230 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4008 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12148 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4008 cve-icon
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