ghsa-cfj9-6cq4-25vj
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Published
2022-05-24 19:03
Modified
2022-05-24 19:03
Details

There's a flaw in libxml2's xmllint in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by xmllint could trigger a use-after-free. The greatest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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{
   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2021-3516",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-416",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2021-06-01T14:15:00Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "There's a flaw in libxml2's xmllint in versions before 2.9.11. An attacker who is able to submit a crafted file to be processed by xmllint could trigger a use-after-free. The greatest impact of this flaw is to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.",
   id: "GHSA-cfj9-6cq4-25vj",
   modified: "2022-05-24T19:03:43Z",
   published: "2022-05-24T19:03:43Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3516",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1954225",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/1358d157d0bd83be1dfe356a69213df9fac0b539",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/230",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00008.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BZOMV5J4PMZAORVT64BKLV6YIZAFDGX6",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QVM4UJ3376I6ZVOYMHBNX4GY3NIV52WV",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-05",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210716-0005",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [],
}


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