CVE-2021-3517 (GCVE-0-2021-3517)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-19 13:45
Modified
2025-12-02 21:34
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE
Summary
There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to supply a crafted file to be processed by an application linked with the affected functionality of libxml2 could trigger an out-of-bounds read. The most likely impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity if an attacker is able to use memory information to further exploit the application.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libxml2 Version: libxml2 2.9.11
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