vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2025-6170)

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 16, 2025
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Jan 5, 2026

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the command-parsing logic of the interactive shell in xmllint. An attacker can supply an overly long argument to any shell command, triggering an unbounded memory copy that overflows a fixed-size buffer on the stack. This leads to a reliable Denial of Service and could be leveraged for Arbitrary Code Execution on systems without exploit mitigations.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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