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CVE-2017-5969

Date: April 11, 2017

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/13/1
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5969
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5969
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5969
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-5969
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96188
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778519
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/05/3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-5969

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Weakness Type (CWE)

NULL Pointer Dereference

CWE-476

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): HIGH
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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