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CVE-2017-10672

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-06-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free in the XML-LibXML module through 2.0129 for Perl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by controlling the arguments to a replaceChild call.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Xml-Libxml Project Xml-Libxml: through 2.0129

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00017.html
• https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122246
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4042
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00017.html
• https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122246
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4042

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