Security Advisory

CVE-2021-3537

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-05-14 19:50:10
Last updated 2024-08-03 17:01:08
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

A vulnerability found in libxml2 in versions before 2.9.11 shows that it did not propagate errors while parsing XML mixed content, causing a NULL dereference. If an untrusted XML document was parsed in recovery mode and post-validated, the flaw could be used to crash the application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.