CVE-2011-3905

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-12-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

libxml2, as used in Google Chrome before 16.0.912.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 5.0, 6.0, 7.0
Google Chrome: before 16.0.912.63 — fixed in 16.0.912.63
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 6.3
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 16.0.912.63. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95465
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/12/stable-channel-update.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2394
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:188
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14761
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95465
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/12/stable-channel-update.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0217.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2394
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:188
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14761

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