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CVE-2013-1969

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.9.0 and possibly other versions might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) htmlParseChunk and (2) xmldecl_done functions, as demonstrated by a buffer overflow in the xmlBufGetInputBase function.

Affected products

• xmlsoft libxml2: 2.9.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00109.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00081.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/53061
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/17/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/19/1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1817-1
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690202
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=de0cc20c29cb3f056062925395e0f68d2250a46f
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00109.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00081.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/53061
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/17/4

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