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CVE-2011-1944

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-189 Numeric Errors
Publication date:
02/09/2011
Last modified:
17/06/2016

Description

Integer overflow in xpath.c in libxml2 2.6.x through 2.6.32 and 2.7.x through 2.7.8, and libxml 1.8.16 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XML file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow when adding a new namespace node, related to handling of XPath expressions.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:2.6.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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