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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-5131: Use After Free

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 23, 2016
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libxml2
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