CVE-2012-5134
EPSS 2.1%libxml2 - buffer overflow
Published: 11/28/2012Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Heap-based buffer underflow in the xmlParseAttValueComplex function in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.0 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.91 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted entities in an XML document.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.8.0+dfsg1-7
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.7.8.dfsg-2+squeeze6