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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-40303: libxml2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-40303: libxml2: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/31/2022
Created
11/02/2022
Added
11/01/2022
Modified
11/30/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in libxml2 before 2.10.3. When parsing a multi-gigabyte XML document with the XML_PARSE_HUGE parser option enabled, several integer counters can overflow. This results in an attempt to access an array at a negative 2GB offset, typically leading to a segmentation fault.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-libxml2

References

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