CVE-2013-2877

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.0, as used in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a document that ends abruptly, related to the lack of certain checks for the XML_PARSER_EOF state.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 28.0.1500.70; 28.0.1500.0, 28.0.1500.2, 28.0.1500.3, 28.0.1500.4, 28.0.1500.5, 28.0.1500.6 (+56)
xmlsoft libxml2: through 2.9.0; 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.8.0 (+119)

References

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e5d7f7e5dc21d3ae7be3cbb949ac4d8701e06de1
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00063.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00077.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
http://secunia.com/advisories/54172
http://secunia.com/advisories/55568
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2724
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2779
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html

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