vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-3537: NULL Pointer Dereference
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | May 14, 2021 | Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 14, 2021
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-libxml2
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