Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5969

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-04-11 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 15:18:49
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

libxml2 2.9.4, when used in recover mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted XML document. NOTE: The maintainer states "I would disagree of a CVE with the Recover parsing option which should only be used for manual recovery at least for XML parser.