vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2021-3537: NULL pointer dereference when post-validating mixed content parsed in recovery mode (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | May 14, 2021 | Jun 30, 2021 | Aug 11, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 14, 2021
Added
Jun 30, 2021
Modified
Aug 11, 2025
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.
Solutions
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-libxml2redhat-upgrade-libxml2-debuginforedhat-upgrade-libxml2-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-libxml2-develredhat-upgrade-python3-libxml2redhat-upgrade-python3-libxml2-debuginfo
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