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CVE-2010-4494

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double free vulnerability in libxml2 2.7.8 and other versions, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XPath handling.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice: from 2.1.0 through 2.4.3; from 3.0.0 before 3.3.0 — fixed in 3.3.0
• Apple Iphone Os: before 4.3.0 — fixed in 4.3.0
• Apple iTunes for Windows: before 10.2 — fixed in 10.2
• macOS: before 10.6.7 — fixed in 10.6.7
• Apple Safari: before 5.0.4 — fixed in 5.0.4
• Debian Linux: 5.0, 6.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 14
• Google Chrome: before 8.0.552.215 — fixed in 8.0.552.215
• HP Insight Control Server Deployment: all versions
• HP Rapid Deployment Pack: all versions
• Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 11-sp1
• xmlsoft libxml2: through 2.7.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenOffice 3.3.0; Apple Iphone Os 4.3.0; Apple iTunes for Windows 10.2; macOS 10.6.7; Apple Safari 5.0.4; Google Chrome 8.0.552.215. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=63444
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00003.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Mar/msg00004.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00000.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055775.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40775
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42472

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