vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2022-40303): libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 22, 2022
Added
Dec 5, 2022
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

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)

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libxml2-utils
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