PT-2024-10708 · Libxml2 · Libxml2

Published 2024-11-20 · Updated 2024-12-18 · CVE-2018-9472

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxml2 (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a possible out-of-bounds write due to an integer overflow in the xmlMemStrdupLoc function of xmlmemory.c. This could lead to remote code execution in an unprivileged process with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is required for exploitation.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-9472

Affected Products

Libxml2

References · 5

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-09-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-9472 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9472 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/104719 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/11645 · Telegram Post