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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-28484: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-28484: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/24/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

In libxml2 before 2.10.4, parsing of certain invalid XSD schemas can lead to a NULL pointer dereference and subsequently a segfault. This occurs in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType in xmlschemas.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libxml2

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