CVE-2025-49796
CRITICAL9.1EPSS 1.8%Published: 6/16/2025Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2025-49796
Description
A vulnerability was found in libxml2. Processing certain sch:name elements from the input XML file can trigger a memory corruption issue. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious XML input file that can lead libxml to crash, resulting in a denial of service or other possible undefined behavior due to sensitive data being corrupted in memory.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/libxml2from 0, < 2.13.9-r0
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |