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CVE-2018-11210 (GCVE-0-2018-11210)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-16 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:01 Disputed
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Summary
TinyXML2 6.2.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the XMLDocument::Parse function in libtinyxml2.so. NOTE: The tinyxml2 developers have determined that the reported overflow is due to improper use of the library and not a vulnerability in tinyxml2
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-05-16 00:00
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