github - ghsa-vqpg-m25j-7558

ghsa-vqpg-m25j-7558

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-10-07 00:30

Modified

2025-11-03 21:30

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

** DISPUTED ** libxml2 through 2.11.5 has a use-after-free that can only occur after a certain memory allocation fails. This occurs in xmlUnlinkNode in tree.c. NOTE: the vendor's position is "I don't think these issues are critical enough to warrant a CVE ID ... because an attacker typically can't control when memory allocations fail."

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CVE-2023-45322 (GCVE-0-2023-45322)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-10-06 00:00

Modified

2025-11-03 20:36

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

libxml2 through 2.11.5 has a use-after-free that can only occur after a certain memory allocation fails. This occurs in xmlUnlinkNode in tree.c. NOTE: the vendor's position is "I don't think these issues are critical enough to warrant a CVE ID ... because an attacker typically can't control when memory allocations fail."

References

URL

Tags

	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/583
	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/344
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/06/5	mailing-list

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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