CVE-2018-20592
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-12-30 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 12:05
Severity ?
Summary
In Mini-XML (aka mxml) v2.12, there is a use-after-free in the mxmlAdd function of the mxml-node.c file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted xml file, as demonstrated by mxmldoc.
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