ghsa-xr2r-hh4x-gv58
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:09
Modified
2025-04-20 03:35
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-4483"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-502"
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-04-11T16:59:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization.  NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.",
  "id": "GHSA-xr2r-hh4x-gv58",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:35:46Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:09:05Z",
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